DEATHS FROM MEASLES.
[FROM orn OWN COIUIESPONDENT.j Sydxet, October 9. There have been more, deaths from measles this year than for any previous year. A rather remarkable case is reported from Lanark, near Grenfeil, where -Mrs. John Mahon, aged 61, and her daughter Ratherine Mahon, aged 24, both died suddenly la.st Sunday night. The whole family had been suffering from measles, •'"id the two deceased had been nursing them, and not thinking the cases serious did not get medical advice. The mother a>-d daughter were the last two to contract the complaint, and seemed to be doing well, and did not take to bed. The medical evidence was to the effect that death *as due u> natural causes, resulting on Measles-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15123, 14 October 1912, Page 9
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121DEATHS FROM MEASLES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15123, 14 October 1912, Page 9
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