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Show ians, was contracted through the use of raw milk or contact with infected cattle. -.O HEALTH NEWS Resident notifiable disease cases cas-es increased from a total of 268 last week to 400 for the week ending April 8, according to reports re-ports sent to the State Department Depart-ment of Health by physicians and local health officers. Some of the communicable diseases dis-eases show a marked increase in numbers this week over the cases cas-es reported for the previous week. Here is a list of some of the more common communicable diseases, the"humber of cases for the current week, and the same figures for the previous week shown in parenthesis: chicken-pox, chicken-pox, 123 (67); measles. 105 (60); German measles, 18 (9); mumps, 69 (53); and whooping cough, 38 (6). Three cases of brucellosis (un- dulant fever) have been reported during the current week and a-gain, a-gain, as so frequently happens, the infection in these cases, according ac-cording to the attending physic- |