SECOND AUCKLAND DEATH
AUCKLAND, Dec. 7. The second death from poliomyelitis since the first cases were admitted to the Auckland Hospital less than a fortnight ago occurred in the hospital thi,-. morning. The victim was a woman from the city aged 31 who was admitted late last week. No additional positive cases were admitted to the hospital during the weekend, hut some of the former suspected cases were reclassified as positive cases, making the numhers tonight 32 positive cases and 12 suspected cases. On Fridav there were 25 positive cases and 22 suspected cases in hospital. The admissions during the weekend were five suspected cases, three being adults and two children. The Medical Officer of Health at Auckland (Dr. L. S. Davis) said tonight that the woman who died was a bad case in which the respiratory rauscles were paralysed. The, victim who died in the Auckland Hospital on November 2N, a nmn aged 27, was also a respiratory case. That was -a ver; rare form of poliomyelitis, Dr. Davis said. A Mapiu boy aged 16 from the Katikati district had been admitted to the Tauranga Hospital and was a suspected case. That was the second case from the Thames-Tauranga health district, the other being a boy aged 13 who was admitted to the Thames Hospital on Friday as a suspected case.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 December 1947, Page 4
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