INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1925, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

[by TEI.EGIIAITI —I* Ell Fit ESS ASSOCIATION

CANTERBURY REPORT. CHRISTCHURCH Alareh 0

.For all eases of infantile paralysis, six weeks’ isolation is prescribed. This morning, six children, who have iulfilled this requirement, and who showno paralysis or muscular weakness, were discharged from the Christchurch hospital. They are the first batch to leave the Hospital as cured, since the epidemic began to sweep over the district.

ERKSII NOTIFICATION. WELLINGTON, .March G. Seventeen cases of infantile paralysis acre reported lor the twenty-four hours ended noon to-day: Auckland district one; Wellington district C; Canterbury district 8; Otago district 2. TIAIARU, March 0. Another case of infantile paralysis was reported to-day. the patient being a child of four, living 20 miles from Timaru. MASTKRTON, March G. A case of infantile paralysis from Fl.etahuna to-ilay. a girl aged three, was admitted to the hospital. SMALL POX CASE. WHANG ARE I, March G. Early in the week, a recent arrival in the Dominion, a Mormon Missionary, aged 23, became sick at the Missionary Camp at Xgapuhu, small settlement two miles from kaikohe. Doctors diagnosed his trouble as small

l>< T)r Chesson, Medical Officer of Health has isolated the patient and also the contacts, who have been vaccinated.

TWO NEW CASES. _ BLENHEIM. Alarch c. Two suspects of infantile paralysis, two small bovs in the same family, wore reported at Havelock and hospitalled.

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