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Show and mumps was third with 83 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: cancer, 2; chicken pox, 110; measles, 148; German measles, 20; mumps, 83; rheumatic fever, 1; strep infection, infec-tion, 57; syphilis, 9; whooping cough, 25; influenza, 29; infectious infec-tious hepatitis, 5. HEALTH NEWS According ' to the weekly report re-port of the state department of health, a total of 489 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending February 29 as compared with 387 for the previous week and 493 for the corresponding week last year. Measles leads the list with a total of 148 new cases. Chicken x pox came second with 110 cases |