MEASLES EPIDEMIC
GOULBURN ISLAND OUTBREAK. DEATHS OF FOUR NATIVES. (United Press Association.) (By Eluctrio Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 24. In a race from Goulburn Island to Darwin to secure a doctor to combat a measles epidemic, the mission lugger was caught in a cyclone. The trip, which should have taken three days was prolonged to 12. The ■ crew was almost exhausted on its arrival at Darwin, as the food supplies had given out. Methodist missionaries on the island are fighting the epidemic. Four natives have died. A doctor is facing despatched. ' °
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20960, 25 February 1930, Page 9
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