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Show HEALTH NEWS 1 According to the weekly -bulletin of the state department of health, a total Of 94 new cases of communicable diseases were reported re-ported for the Week ending August Aug-ust 29th as compared with 89 for the previous week and 83 for the corresponding week last year. Measles led the list with a total to-tal of 22 new cases. Poliomyelitis Poliomyeli-tis and syphilis came next with 16 new cases each. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 1; cancer, 11; chicken pox, 4; malaria fever (contracted outside cont'l U. S.), 2; measles, 22; German Ger-man measles, 2; mumps, 5; Colorado Colo-rado tick fever; '1; poliomyelitis, 16; strep infection, 5; syphilis, 16; tularemia, 2; whooping cough 4; gastro-enteritis, 2; silicosis, 1. o |