INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

THE WEEK-END TOLL. THE AUCKLAND*EPIDEMIC By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, March 13. Seventeen eases of infantile paralysis were' rented during the week-end—• two in the City and (if teen in the coun-. try. The total .number of oases to date is now 307. Two more children have died in the country. DEATH AT PAHIATUA. Paliiatua, March 13. A child who was suffering from infantila! paralysis has'died. There have been three cases altogether, two of which Lavo been i'atah FUMIGATING THE SCHOOLS

Ail inquiry was made yesterday as to what system the Education Board was following in connection with the cleansing and fumigation of the schools under its jurisdiction. The secretary (Mr. Stewart) said that the hoard had really nothing to do with the fumigation of. soliools. It was a matter for the Public Health Department. "Where there was a case of a child becomiug Affected in <i school, or it might only be a contact, the Public Health Department took what steps it considered necessary. It did not mean that where a school was fumigated that a case among the scholars had been detected; it might only mean that there lmd been a contact between a case and children attending the school. Each case was traced carefully by the officers of the Health Department. What they had done was to communicate with school committees nsking them to. oxercise scrupulous cleanliness, and thnt, Mr. Stewart understood, was being done.

"SIXPENCE A PINT"

CITY CORPORATION AS SELLER OF DISINFECTANT. One of tho busiest spots in the Town Hall yesterday was' a room in the collar near the Wakeliold Street entrance to the underground floor of the civic building. There behind a counter two men were busily employed from shortly after 6 a.m. until 5 o'clock last evening selling a very pungent liquid disinfectant (supplied by the Vacuum Oil Company) at "sixpence a pint." The public were requested to bring their owii bottles, .and all day long people—mostly womenfolk—streamed down, armed with bottles of all sizes ; and shapes, from the' giraffe-necked vine-gar bottle to tho homely "square-face'' and pickle bottle, all after "sixpen'orth" of germ-killer. If business in the Town Hall cellar continues as brisk as yesterday for a week or two, Wellington should be "as pure as a lily" hygienically. Tho disinfectant that is being sold is a powerful form of plicnyle, and a toaspoonful to a pint of water makes a capital wash for floors, yards, and also a capital drain-swiller.