The Measles in Wellington.
Was it the Monkey ? (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Wellington, Tuesday, ! Measles are still raging badly, and . tho attendance at tho public schools, which re-opened yesterday, was very ' poor, It-is the worst outbreak for ' thirteen years, the feature of it being thununioer of adults attacked. A report ia going about that the peculiar virulence of tho epidemic is owing to 1 the fact that it was introduced by Fillis' circus, a monkey in which died of tho measles whilst in Wellington. J The disease contracted from animals ' is said to bo much wotso than the ' ordinary foim.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4473, 18 July 1893, Page 3
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99The Measles in Wellington. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4473, 18 July 1893, Page 3
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