SUSPECT AT FIJI
Received Friday, 7 p.m. ' . SUV5^, Jan." 30. The flrst suspected case qf pqliom'yegtis in Fiji was aiinounced today. The patient is a Solomon Islands sailor who came to Suva a fortnight ago in the sjiip Kurimarau. The orew and paa. sqngers wero kept 'under surYeiflan.ee pnd when symptoms developed indicating paralysis, the patient had already fleen admitted to hospital. Thq contacts are noAV in isolation and the ship quarantined in Suva harbour. The Brfliah Solomohs Avere re'cently proclaim.ed an area 'affected by acute an-ter-ror- poliqmyelitia but the numberv of easea is nat. slated qfficiafly. Unofficiah repqrts vavy from 16 to several dozen.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 4
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