INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

DISEASE,STILL SPREADS

Ten new- cases of infantile paralysis were . reported, to tho District Health Officer yesterday, none of them in or near. Wellington City. Six of the cases are at Gisborne, two at Palmerston North, one at Mangaroa, and 0110 at Makotutu, near Napier. ' THE AUCKLAND EPIDEMIC. Auckland, March 9. Two cases of infantile paralysis were reported to-day in tho .country; none in-the city. The total cases to date are now. 342. EPIDEMIC AT MANLY By Telegraph—Press Association—OoiiyrUht Sydney, March 0. In the Legislative . Assembly it was stated that there were over a* hundred cases of infantile paralysis at Manly. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES —: —t — : . DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. : _ » . , . . Timaru, March 9. The body of a man,. much decomposed, was found anions'tho rubble of the north .wall of the harbour this after-, neon. .'lt was fully dressed except for the coat, and in the pockets were found three pound notes and two watches, giving. a. direct clue to .identity. A l , few weeks ago a man 'frffilihan,. of Ternuka, left' .'station and-has not since..called, for it, and from some points,'about'.the clothing of. deceased it is /he .was tlie owner of. the: sl \"S''";i^^'?, r ''L s, }Wcstion is ■ that it J>e iKe_ body.; of a man drowned in the Waited .Jliv.ef.'.'spm'e! weeks ago. HXSI) 'BLOWN OFF. , ; ; Napier, March 9. This morning at Maraetotara a ma-n named -Frank - Schroski had' his right hand bloivri. off/an'd one leg fractured, as'thft result, of some gelignito going olf subsequent to, a miss-fire.' -BLASTING ACCIDENT. .Hastings, March 9. Frank Schroskij'a married man, while engaged l in blasting operations at Maraetotara Quarry, had his right hand blown off and 'one of his -legs broken this morning by a missfire_ exploding when he was-iii the act of withdrawing it.