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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bulle-tin of the state department of health, a total of 101 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending August 1st as compared with 56 for the previous week and 128 for the corresponding week last year. Measles leads the list with a total of 37 new cases. Chicken pox came second with 20 and mumps was third with 10 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 1; chicken pox, 20; diphtheria, diphth-eria, 1; gonorrhea, 2; measles, 37; German measles, 7; mumps, 10; strep infections, 7; syphilis, 1; tuberculosis, 9; tularemia, 1; whooping cough, 3; Rocky Mt. spottpd fever, 1; malaria, 1 (contracted (con-tracted outside U, S.). |