“Paralysis” Alarm: Ambulance Man Called Out To Boy Cyclist
Even an epidemic can have its lighter side. The other evening a well-known local ambulance man was back at work wrestling with pre-holiday problems when there came an agitated thundering at the door. He answered promptly, to find a boy quite obviously distressed. “<suick,” gasped the lad, “get the ambulance! It’s my mate; he’s got it!”
“Got what?” “Infantile paralysis. He’s all crippled up with it!” “Where is he?” the ambulance.man was all attention now, the warhorse snuffing the scent of battle. “Just round here,” the boy was running down the street. St John’s representative pelted after him and, sure enough, there was another boy writhing on the pavement. And he was crippled in both legs—With common or garden cramp.
It appeared the lads had had a long day’s cycling, had come home in the cool of the evening and, overtaxed, weary leg muscles had tied up. A little scientific manipulation cured the “paralysis,” which left no after-effects
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 9, 23 December 1947, Page 5
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