STILL NO PARALYSIS CASES HERE: SISTER KENNY AT AUCKLAND
There are still no positive or suspected poliomyelitis cases in this district. At the end of last week there were 42 positive cases in the Auckland hospital. There were also 5 suspected cases. In the Waikato hospital there are 11 positive cases and 3 suspects. At Wellington there are 4 positive and eight suspected cases. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the discoverer of a method of treating infantile paralysis which has been approved by the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis in the United States and by _the United States Medical Association, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by flyingboat on Sunday. Sister Kenny, who will leave for America on December 23, stated that she had come to present newer findings concerning the disease and its treatment to doctors and Health Department officers if they desired them.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 7, 16 December 1947, Page 4
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142STILL NO PARALYSIS CASES HERE: SISTER KENNY AT AUCKLAND Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 7, 16 December 1947, Page 4
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