MEASLES EPIDEMIC
ABORIGINAL MISSION,
CUTTER'S VOYAGE TO DARWIN
(Received 24th February, 11.30 a.m.) DARWIN, This Day.
In a race from Goulburn Island to Darwin to secure a doctor to combat a measles epidemic, tho mission lugger was caught in a cyclone and ■ a trip which should have ■ taken three days was prolonged to twelve. The crew were almost exhausted on arrival at Darwin, food supplies having given out. The Methodist missionaries on the island are fighting the epidemic. Four natives have died. A doctor is being dispatched.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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87MEASLES EPIDEMIC Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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