INFANTILE PARLYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2733, 30 March 1916, Page 3

INFANTILE PARLYSIS

TEN NEW CASES ' ; ' : MOSTLY FROM THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS . Ten fresh cases of infantile paralysis in the Wellington health district were reported 'to the Department of, Public Health yesterday. Only one of the ten is in the city of Wellington, three are in the suburbs, end six in the country. The notifications came as follows Kilbirnie 1 Haywards 1 Island Bay 1 Melrose 1 Waipukurau 1 Gisborne '..ft.. 1 New Plymouth 1 .Wellington City 1 Newburv (near Palmerston N.) 1 Marotihi (near Foxton) 1 •Total 10 QUESTION OF HOSPITAL. ACCOMMODATION. PRESENT QUARTERS FULL. .The latest problem .for the Wellington. Hospital authorities to; face is the matter of providing accommodation for Infantile paralysis patients. The patients up till now have been accommodated in what is known as tbo "tin : shed," but the public must not conclude that the building so described has been in any way inadequate. The building, ivhich stands at the rear of the Children's Hospital, in .an isolated position, is well lined, and comfortablj; fitted—adequate in every way for a limited number of patients.. There are. at present thirty cases undergoing treatment, and as the .Wellington Hospital district covers' a large area of country, cases are arriving in ' town almost daily, and at present the premises referred to have just about reached their capacity. The matter, of providing further accommodation will reoeive the attention of the Hospital Committee ,at its'meeting this afternoon. There has been some talk of utilising the newly-built addition to the Seddon annexe .(for consumptives); for infantile paralysis patients, but this suggestion does not. find favour with every member of the hoard. . • . ' SERIOUS CASE IN MARLBOROUGH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, March 29 A case of infantile paralysis is reported at Soddon, that of a woman, aged 22. years, who has just, returned from . Wellington.