WORST FOR YEAR

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1933, Page 2

WORST FOR YEAR

EPIDEMICS IN BRISBANE. BRISBANE, July 14. “There is -a greater outbreak of measles in Brisbane just now than I can. remember .for some years, ’ said a Brisbane doctor. There were a- number of adult cases als well as .a big number of children, he added. Mumpg was also prevalent, but the oubreak now was no more severe than other recent ones, he thought. Measles recurred in epideipics about every three ‘ years, the doctor explained. Every year's there were isolated cases of'the sickness, but about every three years doctors noticed a big epidemic. ’This' seeiiied' to be one of' the. very severe years. It was during such big : oiitbfcliks 'that numbers -of -adults as well a,3 children -contracted the sickness.'lt w-a's generally found that adults suffered more than children while the sickness was upon them, but complications 1 wore 'nob 'as common in adult cases ag in children. . . , •Referring t-o mumps the doctor said that he had noticed this sickness among adults as well- as children';at -present.: Workers in some city offices, it was known, had contracted the sickness. It was a. definite germ infection, and one could -assign lo.it no such -cause as miseasonable weather. This sickness.re curbedlike, measles in epidemic^.