CLUBBING FOR MEASLES
BOMB FEOM HOME I'OK EPIDEMICS. A London city man, an economist, who, had 6hut up hid house, discharged his servants, aud was living in an liotel, was seized the other day with shivers and other symptoms that he thought were the onset of influenza.- His doctor, however, announced that lio had got measles. "You must go home, get to bed, and isolate yourself from your family," said tho doctor. "My 'home , is an hotel," answered the patient. "What on earth shall I do? I cannot introduce- a case of measles into an hotel." So the doctor telephoned'to various nursing homes that take infectious cases. The epidemic of measles had mode them all full. The doctor and thn shivering patient sat puzzling things out till an idea etmck the doctor. His hand moved to the telephone again. "One of ray patients hns a largo house with vacant rooms; lie has already got measles in his family. Why shouldn't he let you go there, paying your iva>, and sharing the nvrse? I will put it up to him as an act of national service. ,. The doctor ■ lifted the telephone off its hook, and in fo\ir minutes the matter was arranged.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 6
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201CLUBBING FOR MEASLES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 6
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