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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly report re-port of the state department of health, a total of 92 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending October 12 as compared with 115 for the previous week and 119 for the corresponding week last year. Poliomyelitis and chicken pox led the list with a total of 16 new cases each. Measles was second with 15 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: Brucellosis, Brucello-sis, 2; cancer, 3; chicken pox, 16; gonorrhea, 7; measles, 15; German Ger-man measles, 5; mumps, 9; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 5; poliomyelitis, 16; strep infections, 1; rheumatic fever, 1; tularemia, 4; whooping cough, 1; influenza, 1; Rocky Mt. spotted fever, 4; gastro-enteritis, 1; infectious in-fectious jaundice, 1. o |