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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly report re-port of the state department of health, a total of 343 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending May 30th as compared with 439" for the previous week and 299 for the corresponding week last vpnr Measles leads the list with a total of 238 new cases. Strep infections in-fections came second with 31 and chicken pox was third with 27 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: chicken pox, 27; measles, 238; German measles, 18; mumps, 10; poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, 1; rheumatic fever, 1; strep infections, 31; syphilis, 6; tuberculosis, 4; influenza, 4; infectious in-fectious hepatitis, 1; malaria fever, fe-ver, 2 (contracted outside U. S.). |