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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of health, a total of 91 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending September 26th as compared with 69 for the previous week and 102 for the corresponding week last year. Poliomyelitis leads the list with a total of 26 new cases. Measles came second with 24 and chickeen pox was third with 19 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: cancer, 2; chicken pox, 19; gonorrhea, 5; measles, 24; mumps, 3; poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, 26; strep infections, 2; syphilis, 2; tuberculosis, 2; tularemia, tula-remia, 1; meningitis, 1; whooping whoop-ing cough, 2; Rocky Mt. spotted fever, 1; infectious encephatitis, 1. |