MEASLES EPIDEMIC

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21617, 9 October 1933, Page 8

MEASLES EPIDEMIC

POSITION IN WELLINGTON CHILDREN AND THE SCHOOLS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Sunday As measles are so prevalent in the Wellington district, the detection of all contacts is not possible, and the medical officer of health advises that it is no longer practicable to exclude contacts from the schools. Teachers have been asked to continue to be strict in excluding from school all cases where convalescence appears to be imperfect, and all children who appear to be sickening for the disease. SITUATION IN AUCKLAND "STILL FAIRLY PREVALENT" Measles are still fairly prevalent in Auckland, according to a statement made yesterday by Dr. 1. J. Hughes, medical officer of health. "There was something in the nature of an epidemic a few weeks ago and, although there is a suggestion that it has slackened off to some extent, cases are still fairly numerous," he said. "Outbreaks of measles are common at this time of the year. "However, in Auckland, several medical men have advanced the opinion that some cases have been more serious than usual, and., as a result, we have been enforcing the regulations dealing with measles Cases in schools. These provide for the exclusion from school for 16 days of every child suffering from measles and also ot every contact —generally a child from the same home —unless that child has already had the disease."