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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly report re-port of the state department of health, a total of 552 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending April 4th as compared with 596 for the previous week and 679 for the corresponding week last year. Measles leads the list with a total of 222 new cases. Strep infections in-fections came second with 122 cases and chicken pox was third with 71 cases.. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: chicken pox, 71; poliomyelitis, 3; gonorrhea, gonor-rhea, 1; influenza, 29; measles, 222; German measles, 21; mumps, 56; infectious hepatitis, 2; strep infeetions, 122; syphilis, 7; tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, 12; tularemia, 1; ringworm ring-worm of scalp, 1; whooping cough, 1; silicosis, 2; cancer, 1. |