MEASLES EPIDEMIC
INCREASE IN AUCKLAND TWO DEATHS RESULT FROM COMPLICATIONS iPeb United Press Association) AUCKLAND. Aug.,’29. . A slight increase in the number of cases of measles in Auckland cityis shown in the figures obtained from the Department of Health..' The figures, which are supplied to the .deparunen. from eight leading business houses >m the city, reveal-that there were 127 cases out of a total number of employees of 3787. The number of. cases last week was 105 in, the city. \ ' Two deaths ' occurred during \ the week from complications following measles.
Reports from , district nurses show that cases are still occurring in the country-districts. There has been one death in' the Thames Hospital from pneumonia .following measles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23591, 30 August 1938, Page 7
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