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            <p><font size="1">Camden and Islington Health Authority have warned 
              that failure to have children immunized with the MMR jab has led 
              to a 700% increase in measles in the two boroughs this year. </font></p>
            <p><font size="1">Many parents are now refusing to allow their children 
              to have the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination because of fears 
              that it may be linked to autism. Up to 40% of children in the boroughs 
              are now unprotected from the diseases which can be fatal in some 
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            <p><font size="1">Doctors now fear that there could be a measles epidemic 
              and the health authority is to write to every parent whose children 
              are not immunized to warn them of the potential dangers. In 2001 
              only 73.5 % of two-year-old children were immunized while the health 
              authority's target is 95%. </font></p>
            <p><font size="1">Dr Andrew Wakefield, former consultant gastroenterologist 
              at the Royal Free Hospital, in Pond Street, Hampstead, has been 
              blamed for the increasingly low uptake of MMR. He published the 
              results of research which seemed to indicate a link between the 
              vaccine and the onset of autism in some children. But other doctors 
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            <p><font size="1"> An inquest into the death last October of Regent's 
              Park Zoo elephant handler Jim Robson was told last week that the 
              keeper should not have been in the elephants' compound alone. </font></p>
            <p><font size="1">Mr Robson of Fleet Road, Hampstead was killed when 
              Mya, a 3.8 tonne Asian elephant that he had known for thirteen years 
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            <p><font size="1">Lee Sambrook, who now looks after Mya at Whipsnade 
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              in the elephants' enclosure. London Zoo manager Bill James denied 
              that safety had been overlooked at the zoo. </font><font size="1">An 
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            <p><font size="1">After the tragedy, all three of the London Zoo elephants 
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              Zoo denied that it was because of Mr Robson's death and said the 
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            <p><font size="1">Mr Robson' skull was fractured and he died at Hampstead's 
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            <p><font size="1"> A Camden woman has appeared at the Old Bailey charged 
              with killing her two year-old daughter. Louise O'Shaughnessy, 39, 
              who lives in Camden Town's Maiden Lane Estate, appeared in court 
              last week to face charges of manslaughter, administering poison 
              and child cruelty. </font></p>
            <p><font size="1">O'Shaughnessy's daughter Jasmine died after swallowing 
              methadone, which is prescribed to heroin addicts, last April. The 
              child would have been three only a few weeks after she died. </font></p>
            <p><font size="1">Evidence is said to suggest that the child may have 
              been exposed to methadone for up to a year before her death. </font></p>
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