INFAN' TILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 3

INFAN' TILE PARALYSIS

WELL INGTON DISTRICT'S , FIGURES

N0 r /IFICATIONS DIMINISHING

.i-ive cases or infantile, paralysis wero report* i in the Wellington Health District ye .sterday. Two of them came from Master ton and one from Wellington. *•(?'"? 3 Jam,i ""y 31, when the first no- • tincatl ~on of the disease in the Wellington ,1< lealth District came from New i,f ym< Vnth, 325 cases havo been reported. ihe ' ] 'O'rst outbreak, in, this Vlistrict was * b «''.isbbrne; v wlier6 there have been 31 cases , in the town'itself,'. As far as Wellngt on City.-is.-concerned, -there has Leon ;. nothing in tlio nature of an alarming outbreak'. ■ Taking i.tlie City of 'Wel.luigf 'ton and adjacent boroughs,.there is a J xipulation of about . 80,000 people, ant,/ there have been only 39 cases rejoi rted'to date. Notifications have dimini shed in number lately, and tboHealth Department expects that a very little >vt|ile" will see the end of tho outbreak. It was originally intended to reopen tb le two State schools in Masterton after tl' ae holidays. In order to safeguard tho health of the children, however, the i ehools . will not be reopened for eonio ) .line. •x . . " ' ' CASE IN ASHBURTON. <"•'.•■■. ' : '. By Telegraph—Press Association. . : G'nrislcliurch, May 2. A case of infantile paralysis is rcport- . <»d from/the Ashburton district—a boy ,<rue year old. "" .-, .