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Show Strep infections came second with 23 and chicken pox was third with 18 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: cancer, 3; chicken pox, 18; infectious hepatitis, hepa-titis, 5; gonorrhea, 2; measles, 135; German measles, 1; mumps, 15; rheumatic fever, 1; strep infections, in-fections, 23; syphilis, 1; tularemia, tular-emia, 1; whooping cough, 1; Rocky Mt. spotted fever, 1; malaria, ma-laria, 5 (contracted outside the confl U. S.). HEALTH NEWS . According to the weekly bulletin bulle-tin of the state department of health, a total of 212 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending June 13th as compared with 397 for the previous week and 261 for the corresponding week last year. t Measles continued to lead the list with a total of 135 new cases. |