EPIDEMIC IN THE ISLANDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10780, 31 May 1911, Page 4

EPIDEMIC IN THE ISLANDS.

VILLAGEK DECIMATED. [By Electkio Telkgi'-ai-ii—Copvukiiit.] (Pee Puess Association.) Sydney, May 30. The Island steamer brings news of adisastrous epidemic of inoasles and dysentery amongst tire 'i)atives :a.t Ilritumali Island. It has,.bce-i .racing for two lnonths, and some of the villages have been almost decimated. It is estimated that the population' has been reduced from 2460 to barely I ''oo. The bulk of • the fatal cases have been amongst the young and strong of the population, the elderly largely escaping.