INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1925, Page 4

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

[by TELEGEArn —PEE PE ESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND 1? K PORT. AUCKLAND, February 10. Since noon yesterday, ten eases of infantile paralysis have been reported as follows: City 1, suburbs 3, county (i. The total reported this year is 127. including 20 deaths, three in the Auckland Hospital being reported to-day. RE-OPENING OF SCHOOLS. AUCKLAND, February 10. It is officially announced that the earliest date of reopening the private and secondary schools is March 2. LATEST REPORT. 40 NEW CASES. WELLINGTON, February 10. The Dominion infantile paralysis returns are as follows: Auckland Health District 17: City 5 Taka puna 1 ; .Mount Roskill 1 ; Papakura 1; Pukekohc 1 ; Mauugaturoto 1 ; Whangarei County 2; Ngaruwhia 2; Pukemiro 1. Wellington Health District 17: City 2; Marlborough 1; Carterton 3: Hainesse 1 ; Palmerston North 1 ; Foxton 1 ■ Hawcra 1; Manaia 1; Wanganui 2; Levin 4. Canterbury Health District 0: Christchurch 3j Cashmere 1; Sumner 1; Glenavy 1.

Aid, AIILITARY CAMPS OFF. WELLINGTON, February 10. Cabinet has decided that no military camps can be hold at present. CALVES GET PARALYSIS. AUCKLAND, February 10. It has come to the knowledge of the Department of Agrictnlture that a form of paralysis lias affected a number of calves near Auckland. The paralysis seized the bind legs of the animals and death followed in about twenty-iour hours. One farmer has already lost ton beasts. In the previous epidemic of infantile paralysis. in 15)16, no cases of paralysis were found among animals, but the medical authorities are alive to the possibility of the disease spreading in that direction. So far the examinations have indicated that the paralysis in animals is different from the infantile paralysis, in that the spinal cord is not affected, as in the latter form of the disease only monkeys appear to develop the disease. PR AYERS ADVOCATED. AUCKLAND, February 10. At a meeting of the Auckland Ministers’ Association, reference was made to the prevalence of infantile paralysis, and the Assocaition resolved to call the Church to prayer that the lereaved and suffering might bo comforted, and the widespread trouble abated.