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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of health, a total of 280 new cases of communicable diseases were reported in the state or week ending April 27th. Mumps led the list with a total to-tal of 89 new cases. Influenza came second with 77 and chicken pox was third with 42. The following is a list of all diseases reported in the state for the week: brucellosis, 1; cancer, 3; chickert pox, 42; influenza, 77; measles, 32; mumps, 89; strep infections, in-fections, 15; tularemia, J; whooping whoop-ing cough, 14; gastro-enteritis, 3; acrodyrua (Pink's disease), 1; benign intestinal fluke (contracted (contract-ed in China), 1; paratyphoid fever, fe-ver, 1. " |