MEASLES EPIDEMIC
OUTBREAK AT WHANGAREI. FURTHER CASES REPORTED. By Telegraph —Press Association. WHANGAREI, June 18. “The measles epidemic that has broken out in the .Whangarei district is increasing in the number of cases reported, but not in severity," said Dr C. B. Gilberd, medical officer of health for North Auckland. "So far as the north is concerned, the outbreak first occurred at the beginning of the year in the Far North, where the schools were closed for some weeks by the Health Department, and it has gradually worked south. “The type of measles outbreak in the Whangarei district is not to be confused with the severe type that was prevalent in the Far North at the beginning of the year, and there is no cause for alarm,” added Dr Gilberd. "There has been a slight recurrence of the malady in the Hokianga and Bay of Islands districts, but the greater number of cases are in the Whangarei district, where in some schools fully 50 per cent of the pupils in a few of the classes are absent. As with the outbreak in the northern area, a ntlmber of adults in the Whangarei district have contracted the disease.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 4
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