Plague of Measles.
Star of the South from Fiji reports afeaiful mortality from measles among the Natives. The Natives are paralysed and refuse to assist each other. All the head chiefs are dead. Three hundred died on the island of Ovalau alone, and on other islands a greater number. The disease is always followed by-dysentry and has assumed the form of plague.- Several. Native towns have been depopulated. At one the bodies lay for days uncovered, and were mangled by pigs. The Natives are only* burying the bodies a few inches beloir r the surface, and late rains have ■washed tne soil off. The smell is fearful. At the Island of Anguhu, a great many natives are reported to be lying dead, and no one will bury them. Trade is at a stand still. The Star cf the South returns with little cargo, no one being about to take it out of store and put it aboard.
At Rpwa the sugar company are erecting machinery. Messrs Brcdziack and Evans have been committed i for trial ■'• for man slaughter, natives having died through their negleCt. : - -;..- .:= . , "TV:' —
A missionary scandal occupying attention at the court. He resigned.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1948, 2 April 1875, Page 2
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195Plague of Measles. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1948, 2 April 1875, Page 2
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