MEASLES EPIDEMIC IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
DARWIN, June 20. A barrier is being drawn across the centre of Australia to protect thousands of aborigines in “the top" from a measles epidemic. The Director of Native Affairs, Mr. F. Moy, set out today on a 000-mile trip by car from Darwin to Tennant Creek to supervise the throwing of a cordon to stop infected natives from aboriginal reserves in the Alice Springs area, where the epidemic is raging, coining into ns yet unaffected country north of Tennant Creek.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22697, 23 July 1948, Page 6
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86MEASLES EPIDEMIC IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22697, 23 July 1948, Page 6
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