How Long Will Infantile Paralysis Last?
"Past experience indicates that, while anoutbreak of poliomyelitis is usuallv associated with iiot, dry weather in its initial stages, the coming of coldor weather does not cause amabrupt cessation of the epidennc, " stated Dr. T. C. Lonie, Distrie't Health" OfficO, in Napier last week. "In fact, both in the 1936-37 epidemic and in the present one, the Dominion ligures have shown that tlie- initiihl wa\;e at the beginning of the year has been followed by a lull, with a second riso in incidence in April and May. . "So far the records appear .to indicate that • poliomyelitis , epidemics tend to coine to an end about July or August," he 'conciuded. ('It is to.be hoped that this will oeeur in 1,948, but it is too early yet to say delinite^ ly, and, in fs\ct, tberp ..appeaf.ts.,fo..betllg. certain timo lag in the fall on this occasion. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1948, Page 6
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149How Long Will Infantile Paralysis Last? Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1948, Page 6
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