MEASLES EPIDEMIC
ALL CAMP CASES OF MILD TYPE MEN IN GOOD SPIRITS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. The Director-general of Medical Services (Colonel Bowerbank) visited the Te Rapa camp yesterday. He says the men isolated there are in good spirits, comfortably quartered, and well looked after. He did. not know how long they would have to remain there. Speaking of the measles epidemic in the camps generally, Colonel Bowerbank said that, although it had not yet abated, all the new cases were of a mild type, and that every precaution was being taken to'prevent further spreading of the epidemic.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24400, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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101MEASLES EPIDEMIC Otago Daily Times, Issue 24400, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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