INFANTILE PARALYSIS
B\ TEI. EG R A I'll —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION
DR. McKIBBIN’S STATEMENT
WELLINGTON,- March 31
Dr McKibbin, in reply to tilt enquiry, stated that the Wellington Health District, reached from New Plymouth to Napier and almost to South Auckland in the north, and including Nelson and Marlborough in the south; contains a population of over 40,000; or nearly one third of the population of the Dominion, so that the figures for the province wore really satisfactory.
It was also pointed out that while Auckland had had fewer notifications, it had iv higher death rate than Wellington, where the * notifications weio -.higher. Possibly the doctors in Wellington had been more strict in reporting suspicious eases, and the treatment ■might have been more successful ; but n satisfactory feature is that the recent eases have been of a much milder type. In the course of a day or two, a report is to he prepared as to the severity of the eases notified during .March, as compared with the previous* months. On Friday, the .Minister of Health, will nrobnhiv consider whether of not l lie restrictions can he removed wholly or in part.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1925, Page 2
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