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Show chicken pox was third with 11. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 1; cancer, 4; chicken pox, 11; diphtheria, 1; measles, 16; German Ger-man measles, 1; mumps, 3; poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, 15; rheumatic fever, 1; strep infections, 4; influenza, 2; tularemia, 1; whooping cough, 3; infectious hepatitis, 3; ringworm of scalp, 3. o HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bulle-tin of the state department of health, a total of 69 new cases of communicable diseases-were reported re-ported for the week ending September Sep-tember 19th as compard with 92 for the previous week and 99 for the corresponding week last year. Measles leads the list with a total of 16 new cases. Poliomyelitis Poliomye-litis came second with 15 and |