INFANTILE PARALYSIS
raV TELEGRAPH PER I’ItESS ASSOCIATION. A MAORI BABY I Id,. DAN'NKYiRK E. .March 27. A case of infantile paralysis a Maori babv, nils- months obi. f'em 'l'aheraite was ndim led to Dnouovirkc hospital to-day. Tins i- the llr-t ea-e loi diy lor some weeks. lIMARU, M.irdi 27.
There has beer, onlv two liesli vases of infantile paralysis iep.iri.ed here tliis we A. To (lac two isi s we:■ i':schargca’ from the hospital cured A BETTER OUTLOOK. OHIUSTOIII HC'ft March 27. Dr. Telf-ud •,talcs to-oay that of the patients in the t I • isL lunch Hospital only one as seriously ill. He had been informed by Dr. Fox. Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, that most of the eases of paralysis were beginning to clear up. and he anticipated that, within a month or two. quite a number would he hack to their normal state of health. The beneficial effects of the serum treatment are now becoming very evident. Dr Telford added that if no objections are raised by* the parents, postmortem examinations are made of the bodies of the patients who died from infantile paralysis at Christchurch Hjspititl, and in this way much valuable knowledge has been gained by the medical officers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1925, Page 3
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