MEASLES EPIDEMIC
POSITION IN AUCKLAND (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 26. Although the incidence of measles in the Auckland metropolitan area showed no clear improvements last week, the position is better in country districts. Health Department figures showed that there were again 62 absentees among 3787 employees of eight city firms, representing 1.63 per cent, which was the same as the previous week, when marked improvement was recorded. Three children’ died in Auckland hospital during the week from complications arising from measles. Two were boys aged four and six years respectively and the other was a girl aged four years. There were still 18 cases in hospital today, as compared with 20 last Monday. Fifteen of the patients have German measles, but there are no cases in which complications have arisen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1938, Page 2
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132MEASLES EPIDEMIC Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1938, Page 2
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