PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC
Efforts to Prevent Spread 11 FRESH CASES IN VICT0RIA (Received 24, 10.40 a.m,) SYDNEIY, Atig. 23, The Minister of Health, Mr Fitzsinxons, stated that legislation would be submitted into Parliament this week to guard against tlie spread of infantile paralysis from Victoria into New South Wales. Eleven fresh cases of infaiitile paralysis Were reported to the Melbouine authorities during the Week-end, bringing the total for tlie epidemic to 134. There have now been four adult deaths. A death from infantile paralysis occurred in the Brisbane Hospital yesterday. The victiin, a boy of 15, it is stated, came into coutaot with some Victorian tourists at Coolangatta.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 5
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