CHILD PARALYSIS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 52, 17 March 1937, Page 4

CHILD PARALYSIS

'atients Making Satisfactory Progress PRECAUTIQNS TAKEN No further cases of infantile paralysis have been recorded in the district up to midday, and the authorities report that the five children so far isolated at the Napier Hospital are making satisfactory progress. Only one of the five cases is at all serious, this being one admitted about a week ago. The Borough Health Inspeetor, Mr O. 0- Carrell, has been advised by the District Health Officer of the Depariment of Health, Dr. Champtaloup, that children under 16 years of age are to be exeluded from campg or other public gatherings. The Government Medical Officer of Health, Dr. F. S. McLeaa, has written confirming th© closing of th© schools and has dxrected also that instructions be issued to all Sunday School superintendents to do likewise. Managers of all pictur© theatres have been asked to co-operate in the precautionary measures by excluding all children under the age of 16 years from attending the theatres. In addition admission to children under 16 is to be refused at all swimming haths. No consideration has so far been given to the question of closing down Napier schools as a result of the outbreak in Hastings. It is considered that at- the present stage a ©losedown is not warranted. It has been decided to canoel the big combined picnic which the R.S.A. branches were to have held at Waipawa on Sunday next. The decision, arrived at by the Central Committee, was taken on the following wire from the Public Health Department: — "As sporadio cases of infantile paralysis are reported from Hawke's Bay and Palmerston- North areas, advise picnic should b© postponed."