Survey Made Of Factors In Spread Of Paralysis
The opening or closing of the schools during the most receht outbreak of infantile paralysis in New Zealand did not affect the course of the epidemic, according to the general opinion of medical officers of health, Their conclusion is recorded in the annual report of the Health Department. The director of the divsion of public hygiene, Dr F. S, Maclean, says that a survey has been made pf all school children in the Auckland and Wellington districts who contracted the disease and suffered some degree of paralysis or paresis. This inquiry covered all periods when the schools in these localities were open.
Of the 127 children who developed the disease, 81 were attending school at its onset. If only three instances did a second case occur at the same school within the usual incubation pei’iod of seven to 14 days.
The possibility of some other source of infection in these three crises cannot be excluded, he added.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 4, 4 October 1950, Page 8
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