MEASLES - May 8, 1915

A timely warning has been given by Councillor Robinson concerning the serious nature of the epidemic

of measles, which is at present killing off our young people at such an alarming rate that the death

rate from this cause if now higher than at any previous time in the records of the Borough.

The epidemic is not peculiar to Northampton.  From other towns come reports of what is known as

"black" or haemorrhagic measles are being reported.  This malady sets in with such great suddenness

and intensity that a doctor should be consulted at once.  The symptoms are a rash of dark red or almost

black hue, instead of the ordinary reddish blotches in common measles.  In black measles death may

occur in the early stages of the disease from the virulent poisoning caused by the disease.  There is

a theory that the disease has been imported from the war areas by soldiers who have returned from

the Front.