MEASLES IN AUCKLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 240, 11 October 1938, Page 7

MEASLES IN AUCKLAND

FURTHER DECREASE REPORTED.

[ Per Press Anociatlon.] AUCKLAND, Oct. 10. A further decrease in the number of persons affected by measles in the Auckland metropolitan and rural areas was reported by the district officer of the Health Department to-day. Absentees last week among 3787 persons employed by eight city firms totalled 38 or 1.02 per cent, compared with 46 in the previous week. Four persons with German measles and two with the ordinary type were patients in the Auckland hospital last week compared with a total of 10 the previous week. A boy of 12 died at the hospital from complications following ordinary measles.

POSITION IN THE SOUTH LITTLE DIFFERENCE AT WELLINGTON. NOT ABATING IN NELSON AND MARLBOROUGH. t Per Frew Association.] WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. A statement that in his opinion the measles epidemic in Wellington had given place to a mild form of German measles was made to-day by Dr. F. S. Maclean, medical officer of health, who said that some schools had reported more children absent last week than the previous week. It had been found that many children who had been away from school earlier because of measles, had now contracted German measles. The position in the Wairarapa was much the same as last week, said Maclean, some 126 cases having been reported from the schools. Cases were still occurring in Nelson and Marlborough in which districts it showed no signs of abating at present.