MEASLES EPIDEMIC

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 3 June 1938, Page 27

MEASLES EPIDEMIC

WELLINGTON SCHOOLS AFFECTED POSITION HOT SERIOUS (Special to Daily Times) WELLINGTON, June 2. “A measles epidemic which Is affecting the attendances in primary schools in Wellington is running its expected course, most of the cases being of a mild type,” said Dr F. S. McLean, medical officer of health, Wellington, to-day. Dr McLean added that there had been no deaths so far as was known, and the department was not viewing the position with any alarm. The glosing of the schools during the term holidays had left the officers of the department somewhat in the dark as to the spread of the epidemic. Dr McLean said, but from the reports of headmasters after the schools resumed it had been established that the outbreak, which had originally affected only schools in the Seatoun and Thorndon areas, had moved more into the middle of the city. There were 20 or 30 cases in Wellington South and Newtown among school children, but he could not say how many younger children were affected, as. although headmasters notified cases, measles was not a notifiable infectious disease.