MEASLES EPIDEMIC.
OUTBREAK ON ISLAND. Received February 24, 11 a.m. DARWIN, Feb. 24. In a race from Goulburn Island to Darwin to secure a doctor to combat an epidemic of measles, a mission lugger was caught in a cyclone. The trip, which should have taken three days, was prolonged to twelve. The crew was almost exhausted on arrival at Darwin. and the food supplies had given out. Methodist missionaries on the island are fighting the epidemic. Four natives have died. A doctor is being despatched.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 2
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85MEASLES EPIDEMIC. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 2
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