POSITION IN TARANAKI
NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 6. 8ix positive cases already discharged from Taranaki hospitals after treatment for infiAtile paralysis are reported to have made a eoniplete recovery or to have at most only slight paralysis that will not haudieap them in future. The disease has been in a mild form in the district and none of the' patients lias suffered any great discomfort. "None of tlie paralytic cases is very bacl and it is expected there will ultimately be a high degree of recovery," said a hospital doctor-. Whatever their degree of recovery patients are k'ept under medical observation for a period after discharge. Since Novejn'ber 21, lo positive cases have been diagnosed and nine are still in hospital. Of those discharged four were treated "in- New Plymouth .Hospital and two in the Stratford Hospital.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1948, Page 4
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136POSITION IN TARANAKI Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1948, Page 4
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