EPIDEMIC EXPECTED
MEASLES IN VICTORIA
(Received .-March 24, -9 ajn.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
Referring to the reported prevalence of measles in New Zealand, the chairman of the Health Commission, Dr. Featonby, said that a measles epidemic with many deaths was expected in Victoria.
Dr. Featonby said that Victoria's last measles epidemic, -when there were 200 deaths, was in 1920. There had been no case in Victoria for more than a year, and consequently thousands of children were not immune.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 9
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