MEASLES IN BRISBANE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1933, Page 9

MEASLES IN BRISBANE

“WORST FOR YEARS.” MUMPS ALSO PREVALENT. “There is 'a' greater outbreak of measles in Brisbane just now than I can remember for some years,” said a Brisbane doctor recently. There were a number of adult cases as well as a big number of children; •he added. Mumps was also prevalent; but the outbreak now was no more severe than other recent ones, fie’' thought. ' Measles recurred’' in epidemics about every three years,' the' doctor explained. Every year there were isolated' cases of the sickness, but about every. three years doctors noticed a big epidemic. This seemed to be one of the very severe years. It was during such big outbreaks that numbers of adults as well as children- contracted the sickness. It was generally found that adults suffered more than children while the sickness was upon ■ them, but complications were not so common in adult cases as in children.-

Referring to mumps the doctor said that he had noticed this sickness among adults as well as children at present. Workers in some city offices, it was known, had contracted the sickness. It was a definite germ infection, and one could assign to it no such cause as unseasonable weather. This sickness recurred like measles in epidemics.