INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2721, 16 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

TWO MORE CITY CASES

>r Eight •■notifications of- infantile • paralysis, two from tho City and six • from tho country, were received by tho dist-riot" health authorities' yesterday;- ; The new'.'cases ; are distributed as follow:—Two at Wangautn, one at Ha-, wora, one at Ngaero, one at Stratford, fj .one at Mariaia; and two at Wellington: The ■ .Wellington.- eases are in different ; parts of the City—one in a locality not previously affected/ . . , THE AUCKLAND EPIDEMIC. ■ '. By Tolegraph—Press Association. ' Auckland, MaTcli 15. • Four cases of infantile paralysis were reported to-day—two in the city and ■■ two in ..the country. The total, cases .to date is now 387. "" ' SUSPECT AT DTJiVEDIN. . Dunedln, March 15. | Oim suspected case of infantile par- ; f- alysis -has -been reported in. 'Dunedin. :■ Ono,'at Mosriel, :has! been definitely proj jioiinoed to be another class of illness. . WARNING TO PARENTS. : . 1 Tbo' Department of Public Health ■ ; warns parents' against' allowing children • under .the-age-of* fourteen-years to f , ■ querit places of public 'assemblage or en-, i; tertainment during the -present epidemio of infantile paralysis. ' serious public danger ' DOCTORS CONDEMN CITY'S MILK - SUPPLY. ■ Tht Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke], lias re- : * : fieiyed" the following '■-< letter ; from the • British-Medical Association ;•"I am instructed -by the Wellington i Division of t-lic B:M. A. -to forward to >you..-the; enclosed; resolution.Much r . anxiety is felt by the members at the' • shocking state of affairs as regards our \milk supply. ' I shall be glad to hoar : from you before our next meeting—7th April, 1916.—1 nm, yours, eto., C. F.. ; Pattie, 1 -Hon. Secretary." '.- : "Can'tho Wellington City Council givo the Wellington- Division of the ■ B.M.A. iny hope .ythat. .the..milk' supply of Wellington will bo im- ■ proved in the near future, as the Medical Association is of opinion. , that the present condition. ..of the. ... milk supply.-.- is' a ; serious public . danger'" ■

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