“NO OFFICAL ADVICE”
EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES ON STRATHMORE (P.A.) Wellington, March 7. No official advice has so far been received at Army headquarters in Wellington of a serious outbreak of measles in epidemic form, reported by Reuter s Colombo correspondent in a London cable to have occurred on the Strathmore, which is carrying New Zealand troops from Italy to Japan. The cable message stated there were 170 cases and that the number was increasing.
Brigadier K. L. Stewart, commander of the New Zealand Brigade Group, who is now in Wellington, saw the men embark for Japan on the Strathmore on February 20. He stated this evening that there was hospital accommodation on the Strathmore for at least 200 patients. There was also adequate medical and nursing staff on the ship, for medical and nursing units to:- the New Zealand Occupation Force were also travelling on the Strathmore. There was therefore no cause for undue alarm.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 56, 8 March 1946, Page 5
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