INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2731, 28 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

SEVEN CASES

ONE IN THE CITY FATAL Seven new cases of infantile paralysis have been reported to the Department of Public Health since Saturday. Of these, two are in tho City. The notifications aro from: Hastings 1 Now Plymouth 2 Wellington. 2 Petone I Upper Hutt 1 Total 7 One of the two City cases included In the report has proved fatal. . DISINFECTION OF STABLES. The Town Clerk (Mr. J. R. Palmer) notifies in this issue that all persons' in charge of stables are requested to disinfect their manure- heaps daily in order to keep down tho plague l of flies. Any failure in this respect will be treated as a nuisance, and proceedings taken accordingly. FIRST CASE AT LEVjN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Levin, March 27. The first case of infantile paralysis in Lovin was reported this morning, the victim being a two-year Maori child. As several other children in the family attend school, as a precautionary measure the school has been closed this week. • TWO CASES IN WOODVILLE DISTRICT. Woodville, March 27. Two cases of infantile paralysis are reported—one at Kumeroa and one at Hopelands. They have been sent to the Pahiatua Hospital '! THE EPIDEMIC IN CHRISTCHURCH By Telegraph—Press Association. Chrlstchurch, March 27. ' Two suspected. cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in the environs of Ohristchurch—one a- young man, aged 19, and the other a child of eight. The cases are under_ observation in the Ohristchurch Hospital. One of the two. suspicious cases reported has died. The case in question is that of the young man, but it is not known whether.death was due to cerebrospinal meningitis or infantile paralysis.