OPAWA SCHOOL CLOSED

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21111, 12 March 1934, Page 4

OPWA A SCHOOL CLOSED

♦ j EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES ! INCREASING J The Opawa School has been closed j because of measles in the district, and j Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, medical officer i of health in Christchurch. f rates that ! the epidemic is apparently increasing. ; A fair number of pupils are absent. . frcrr. other schools in the citv. Dr. Telford said that the epidemic; would have to run its course, and ropeatvd the warning he had Given previously. 'that children with measles must be kept in bed. Where '■ lu eyes were irritated the patients should be kept in darkened rooms. The epidemic had follow.! the course anticipated. Dr. E. Baker McLaglan, school medical officer, said, but the disease was mild in form. Parent? and teachers were giving the Health. Department every assistance, and precautions were being taken to check the spread of the epidemic. The trouble had been more severe in the country than in the city, probably because a greater percentage of children were immune in the city. The Tai Tapu, Mount Pleasant, Dunsar.del, Leeston. Oxford. Ashley, Governor's Day, Ilororata. Heathcote, anc. Opawa I Schools had been closed, ana Phil'ips- : town. Riccarton. Waltham, and Syclj enham Schools had decreased attendances.