TEN DEATHS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 9

TEN DEATHS.

SERIGUS MEASLES EPIDEMIC. NORTH AUCKLAND OUTBREAK,' (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHAXGAREI, this day. Since February there have been 10 deaths from measles in Xorth Auckland, and the outbreak ha* assumed epidemic proportions. The deaths, which include those of tw o white children. have occurred in the northern part of the Bay of Islands Countv and h> far north as the North hqx-. Inder authority from the Mini<lcr of Health I the medical officer for North Auckland. I Dr. C. B. Oifoerd. has closed all schools and Sunday schools and prohibited the attendance of children under th'- a?e of 16 years at all jrathcrin:r s and picture shows in the Mangonui and Whangaroa Counties. "It is necessarv to warn th? p«Wie that the type of measles is of a highly infections nature and may be followed ' by serious complications," said Dr. O:l----berd this morninsr "When children show signs suggesting measles, each as fever, so7e eves and symptoms of a cold in the head, "they «honJd be immediately isolated in bed in tieir homes and medical advice sought. It the diajenosis of measles is confirmed the isolation period is laid down as M days from the appearance of the rash until convalescence is satisfactorily established, but owmp to the Krioue nature of the present epidemic three weeks' isolation U adnsed."