INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1925, Page 2

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION 90 NEW 'CASES. WELLINGTON. March 0. Twenty-six eases, in all, of infantile paralysis were notified throughout the Dominion during the 48 hours ending at 9 a.in. tn-dav. One of the.'.-' was in the city of Wellington and eight in Christchurch. The eases are distributed as under : Auckland Health District: 3—Takapuna 1. Waitoa Te Arolia 1. Frankton Junction 1. Wellington Health District: 9—City 1. Lower llutt 1, Hawera 1. Palmerston North 1. Eketaliunn 1, Havelock South (in one house) 2. Aniseed Valley, Richmond (second ease in same house) 1. Motueka 1. Canterbury: 14 —Christchurch 8, Rncarton 2. Darfiehl 1. Mairehau 1. I imaru 2. Otago : 0. TI.AIA.RU CASES. TIMAKU, Alarch 9. Two fresh cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Tiniarn distiict today. a lmy of two years and a girl of seven years. Owing to the epidemic Geraldine Mo Patrick’s sports have been postponed indefinitely. SCHOCPS NOT RF-OPI-\I\G. AVFtJ.INGTOX. Alarch f). Sir James Parr, Minister f |lr I’M option. informed a reporter that he thought that there was no prospect whatever of the schools re-ipenuig on the 16th. inst. Monday next. “Indeed, personally.” said the Almister, “I do not see much chance of the schools opening before the end of this month. T poking at the position of the epidemic to-dnv. I should not care to take the responsibility of opening anv school for some time yet.” The educational authorities will l>e largely guided, of course, bv the Health Department in regard to this master: but the above is the opinion of the educational authorities upon Avbont ft l«»'ge responsibility rests,