Two More Cases
CHILD PARALYSIS TMrd Suspect Proves to be Negative mm > HASTINGS TOTAL NOW! 7 Two further cases of infantile paralysis were reported during the week- end to the health authorities In Hastings. Both cases were deflhitely positive, and in ^ case the lower limbs Siave been affected. / One of the latest victims is a six* year-old boy, who. was a pupil of the Convent School, and the other a two* yeaT-old girL Both are living in Hast* ings. A third case, a suspect, was also reported, but this was later definitely diagnosed as an entirely different eoctt' plaint. There have now been seven cases ren ported in Hastings and the surrounding districta since the first case was regorfc* ed thTee weeks ago. It is interesting to note that np to the present outbreak Hastings had been free of the complaint since February, 1928, though there was one sus* pected case early in 1929, bnt thia proved negative.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 5
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