CHILD PARALYSIS CASES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 4

CHILD PARALYSIS CASES

Aaother Child Admitted to Hospital ISOLATED OUTBREAKS A further case of infantile paralysis was reported in Hastings this morning when the Borough Health Inspector, Mr. C. O. Carrell, was advised that a five-year-old girl had heen sent to the Napier Hospital as an acute case of the dreaded disease. This case hrings the total nuanber for the district up to five. The latest admission is understood to have been stricken during the weekend and was not at school yesterday when it was decided to elose the schools until after Easter. As far as can be uscertained she is the only child of the five so far affected that was attending a public school, and she was admitted only when schools reopened at the be* ginning of this month. The order to the headmasters of the various schools to elose down yesterday sras not receited until during the lunch hour and consequently pupils assembled as usual yesterday afternoon. They were addressed by the headmasters and teachers, who impressed upon them the necessity of having the head coveredvwhen out in the sun, and they were chen dismissed. The decision to elose down the schools was purely a* precautionary measure, for though there had been four cases reported at that time the cases were definitely isolated ones. In no ca#p was any partieular school concerned, for all were under school ege, or just turning five years of age. Actually the first case was reported a little over two weeks ago, it having been believed at first to be a case of spinal meningitis, but was later diagnosed as infantile paralysis. v The Presbyterian Bible Class camp, which was to have been held at Havelock North during Easter, has been definitely called off on the advice of the health authorities.