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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bulle-tin of the state department of health, a total of 82 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending October 24th as compared with 78 for the previous week and 164 for the corresponding week last year. Poliomyelitis leads the list with a total of 20 new cases. Strep infections came second with 19 and chicken pox was third with 11 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 1: cancer, 2; chicken pox, 11; diphtheria, 1; gonorrhea, 5; measles, mea-sles, 9; German measles, 2; poliomyelitis, pol-iomyelitis, 20; mumps, 1; strep infections, 19; syphilis, 2; tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, 2; gastro-enteritis, 5; whooping cough, 1; infectious hepatitis, 1. O |