Outbreak of Measles in Victoria
60,000 PEOPLE ATTACKED. 100 DEATHS REPORTED. U'KB PRKSB ASSOCIATION.] Mklbouknk. This Day. The epidemic of measles has reached Victoria and is spreading rapidly throughout the colony. Over sixty thousand people have been attacked by it, but the disease is of a mild character. One hundred deaths have been reported so far. The Board of Health expects the epidemic will run out in three months and Bays it is likely to spread through the other colonies.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 30, 4 August 1893, Page 2
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