INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2712, 6 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

EPIDEMIC SHOWS SIGNS OF , ABATING >

LOCAL REPORT

■No cases of infantile paralysis in! Wellington were notified, on Saturday. Onc_.oaso waß'reported .from';Gisbonie. Reports ..wore; in -circulation-'on":-Fri-day- of., a . suspicious case. 'at Eastbourne, ; "and .aiv;'. : .;liispector v,;af,' the' '.v Ey&altjb.?. Department.;'-. \ there-;to make investigations. He-re-* . li<ir't&cl.;!bii Saturday.; that'-the case presented -no indications' of;'the; disease".": ..The' .child,; suffering -. from,;' temporary; . sickness,-was guite\well-.again- ■ ». A . to the various local' health'.olficers by tie - Health. Department giving instructions, concerning -the disease, and the precan-; . .tions -tliatv should ibe observed.. The in-, cubation period.,of the disease, germ is approximately:: six "days, and, tho infect tivity of sontact-s may be placed rough; Jv at abo.it <hreo weeks. ~ Another .-ease of'. ' ffas from Hawera on . - Our correspondent ;at/Mastertnn, writing on March 4, states that > two.-: cases*-. of--infantile.' par-al.y'sis....have ■ljeen reported :ii£ the Wairarapa'.-'.bfie at.'. , Greytowirnnd; tho .other, at Featherston'.; precaution-has'lb'eeu" taken'against' ant . outbreak Of"the : disea3e;.in Mast-erton.,, ; SIXTH CASE AT NAPIER -' .; ■ ?,>wßy.; Telegrapjfi-Press.' Association. /i"' : . „.- ■". ... . Napier, March 4. . ca.se.of' infantile '.paralysis'-,is . .: Reported—a-child' thirty -months, "of- age o-makiiig a total of six Napier, cases. ' '' EPIDEMIC ON THE*/WANE. '.' Auckland, March o. •Only two cases .of-infantile paralysis : .were reported during the week-end, both being from the country. The total reported for. the-week ■ was nine cases : ill the.city and two cases iin the.country;- and the total to date, is Itil "cases in the city and 158 in the country.' 'The returns" indicate -that ! the' 'epidemic', is waning, particularly in the City!