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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of health a total of 165 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending November 26th. Mumps led the list with a total to-tal of 48 new cases. Chicken pox came second with 34 and strep infections was third with 19 cases. The following is a list of diseases dis-eases reported for the week: cancer, 6; chicken pox, 34; poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, 4; influenza, 18; measles, meas-les, 8; German measles, 3; strep infections, 19; mumps, 48; tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, 3; whooping cough, 4; gonorrhea, 7; syphilis, 4; infectious infec-tious hepatitis, 2; gastro enteritis, enter-itis, 1; mononucleosis (infec), 4. o |