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Show HEALTH NEWS Physicians and local health officers reported a total of 296 resident notifiable disease cases to the state department of health for the week ending January 28. That number compares favorably favor-ably with the 384 cases last week and represents a slight increase over the 237 reported for the corresponding cor-responding week last year. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: chicken-pox, chicken-pox, 97; diphtheria, 4; measles, 76; German measles, 18; mumps, 44; pneumonia, 12; scarlet fever, 4; septic sore throat, 1; tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, 4; tularemia, 2; whooping cough, 20; gonorrhea, 6; syphilis, 10; cancer, 2; and rheumatic fever, fe-ver, 1. |