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Show HOW AN EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES GOT ITS START Tho following account if a severo epidemic of measles and how it started is given In Farm and Fire bldo tho natjonnl farm paper published publish-ed in Springfield, Ohio: A mother and child wero waiting for u trnln In tho Union Station at Kansas City destination Manhattan, Kansas. A Httlo girl In tho next sent was broken out with measles; had a high fever and n bad cough. Two weeks later tho exposed child wan taken sick with measles Four college students wero rooming with tho pcoplo whom this mother find child woro visiting. Ten days latm two of tlicso students wero tolling what a bevere cold they had and how they felt, but they went on to school until quarantined for menslos. Tho cxposur.9 had been completed. Others cntiiQ down. "Heports began to como to this department de-partment until wo recorded Bio enses of measles within th6 houndries of Ulley County: also tho deaths of four babicB to whom this disease Is very fatal. A number of other persons will go through Hfo with tome drfi'ct due to this disease" |