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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly report re-port of the state department of health, a total of 495 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending April 20 as compared with 471 for the previous week and 635 for the corresponding week last year. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: Brucellosis, Brucello-sis, 1; cancer, 4; chicken pox, 87; gonorrhea, 1; measles, 102; German Ger-man measles, 2; mumps, 179; pneumonia, 5; poliomyelitis, 1; rheumatic fever, 1; strep infections, infec-tions, 92; syphilis, 2; tuberculosis tubercu-losis (pul.), 3; whooping cough, 5; influenza, 8; ringworm of the scalp, 2. O |