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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of health, a total of 178 new cases of communicable diseases were reported fur the week ending July 9th. Mumps led the list with a total to-tal of -17 new cases. Measles came second with 40 and strep infections infec-tions was third with 29 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 1; chicken pox, 23; poliomye-lities, poliomye-lities, 1; influenza, 12; measles, 40, German measles, 3; mumps, 47; strep infections, 29; whooping whoop-ing cough, 15; gonorrhea, 1; syph ilis, 5; rheumatic fever, 1. |