MEASLES IN ISLANDS.
ORIGIN OF EPIDEMIC. Per Press Association.
i AUCKLAND, Aug. 24. Eight Rarotongans returning homo after having been cured of leprosy at: Makogai arrived at Auckland some months ago. One showed signs of a disease thought to be smallpox and was sent to hospital here.' It was iound, however, to bo only chickenpox. While in the city some natives contracted measles, and that is how the present epidemic of measles began in the islands, said Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. AV. Dawson, Medical Officer of Health at New Plymouth, who returned this morning from Rarotonga, where he has been assisting in combating tho disease. The trouble started in February. The returned natives thought .they had a recurrence of leprosy and kept in bid ing. Friends also contracted measles. and hid. Then a big dance was held, so the epedemic was flourishing when attention was given to it. Up to the time Colonei Dawson left there werc--600 cases and 150 were in hospital.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 9
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162MEASLES IN ISLANDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 9
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