Containing an outbreak of mumps and measles
In October, both the 2nd and 4th Brigade reinforcements were confined to an isolation camp. Some of their number suffered an outbreak of mumps and measles.
‘I wonder why this island is so unhealthy … Yet I don’t suppose it is the island so much as the flies and the want of suitable food.’
– Staff Nurse Anne Donnell, diary, 29 Oct. 1915
