INFANTILE PARALYSIS
l TWO MORE CASES IN THE CITY
GREAT:'CARE ;
Eight notifications ; of infantile tralysis, two from the' City area, were jceived at tho District Health ..Office ssterday. These cases-were distributed . • Y follow,: Two 'a\ '.Wellington;' three' at • . Boston, one at Eltliam, one'at Oroiia Downs, and one at WhatAwara (neai Hawera). The two Wellington are in the same neighbourhood; as the pre- . . vious cases reported—in the vicinity •of Mount Cook.-.; All: 1 the--: cases have : been isolated, most, of them at the Public Hospital. One of the cases reported yesterday was' that of an adult, over 30-years of age; : . No-further cases of infantile paralysis have been roported in the Wairarapa. Precautions are being taken to stop . the spread of.'the disease, and in these measures the Health Authorities ask for , the. assistance of the puhlic, and especi- .. ally of parents of children. It is of the utmost" importance that isolation .restrictions should be strictly observed. It may: be true that middle-aged or . elderly people do hot run the risk of infection by coming into contact.with persons who are suffering . from the disease,' but even people 'who do not contract the disease may carry the infoction to others, and especially 'to .children. 11l the cities and large'towns it may be. taken for granted that the Health Authorities will leave little to chance, and that isolation precautions will be efficient. But in country dis-r tricts the Health Authorities must in ii measure, depend on the people conowned, the family 'of the patient, to see that the isolation is strictly observed. Through- foolishness, and even ' .mistaken sympathy, parents and others can menace entire communities. For .instance, only a few'days ago, in a • country town in the 'Wellington distrfct, a child . succumbed ; to the com- . . plaint, and the house was declared isolated. Yet the Health■ Authorities state that two ladies,, parents themselves - with young children, entered the placo and stayed there in spite of all that had been said of the danger to- their child-ren-of such a course. A still worse .. aspect ,of such foolishness was that their own children were .attending tho public school. The Health Authorities - desire to-impress upon the parents and the public generally that adults are . "carriers" of tho germs, though they , - themselves may hot develop the disease. . A Wellington resident has received a. letter from a friend in Australia, in .- whioh it is stated that a mixture.of ten parts of olive oil and' one part of eucalyptus, sprayed up . the . nostrils twice .daily, is being used in . the Commonwealth with success as a.preventive against'infantile paralysis. The writer says that in many business establishments in Australia employers are requiring the members of their staffs to use ' the mixture, regularly. _ CASE AT WANGANUI. Telegraph—Press . Association., .. .; Wanganul, March; 8. , A case of infantile paralysis was ad- • mitted to the hospital to-day. The patient !is a child residing in the borough. ... A case of.suspected infantile paral- ' ysis is under observation,- tho patient 13 a boy living at Wangaehu. . THE AUCKLAND EPIDEMIC !; . By TelegjapliT-Prcßs Association. Auckland, "Maroh "8. : beven cases of infantile paralysis were reported to-day—one in the city and six m the country; making the' total cases to date, 340, ■ '(To the Editor:) " -■■' - -Sir,—Ro infantile paralysis.,:,,'lt hasoccurred.;to. mo. that: this dread-'.'disease' mi §ht-;]be- caused - through- -eatings food containing ft f nek that butchers are in the habit of putting; sufficient preservative ,in saus- ■ -aces-made .during hot weather to keep tliem sweet, for several days. Preservatives' are largely made up" with boracic powder. Boracio powder has a paralysing effect on humau beings if taken in too large-quantities. 1 am just mentioning ~this, .for what-it-mav be worth.—l am, etc., MATER.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 6
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