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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin -of the state department of health, a total of 342 new cases of communicable diseases were reported in the state for the week ending April 15- Mumps continued to lead the list with a total of 156 new cases. Chicken pox was second with 63 and strep infections was third with. 34. . The following is a list of all diseases reported for the week: cancer, 7; chicken pox, 63; influenza, in-fluenza, 8; measles, 21; German measles, 11; mumps, 156; strep infections, 34; whooping cough, 20; gonorrhea, 7; syphilis, 7; infectious in-fectious hepatitis, 3; botulism poisoning, 4; mumps-encephalitis, 1. |