PERIODICAL WAVES
DISEASE ALWAYS PRESENT
Infantile paralysis in a more or less virulent form is constantly present in New Zealand, according to a detailed survey of its incidence since 1914, ' which is published in the Abstract of .. Statistic? for March. With the surIvey is given a table of the numbers .oi cases in each year and of the ratio •'of cases occurring in .the:two sexes. This indicates that males are consider- • ably more susceptible to the disease than females, remarkably so In some ; years.
The principal outbreaks were in 1916 and 1925. with waves of less intensity in 1921-22 and 1932. In 1916 354 males and 219 females were treated in the hospitals, a total of 573. In 1925 the number of males was 700 and of . females 552, a total of 1252. In no year •; has'the number of cases treated been - lower, than 8, and it has seldom bsen less than 50. -.-
;The morbidity rate for each 100,000 of. the population reached its peak at 94. in 1925 and was 52 in 1316. Last year it was only 2.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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180PERIODICAL WAVES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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