DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AVARXING BY DOCTOR. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 21. Epidemics of infantile paralysis have appealed at intervals of four or five years since 1912. On this basis Dr J. It. AYill told the New Zealand Massuers’ Association that another epidemic may he expected in 1929 or 1930. In America there was a definite conclusion that ttie disease was carried h.v air from one person to another by nasal secretions. One means of spreading tlie disease was by kissing and fondling children. The most efficient control was tlie isolation of patients as soon as tlie presence of the disease was detected, and tlie prevention of ail gatherings of children.

LUCKY ESCAPE IN SMASH OHRtSTCHUR H, Sept. 23. AYhen a car in which they were travelling was struck by the north express at Bligli’s Road level crossing at 8 o’clock this morning, 11. Black, an electrical engineer of North Road. Papanui. and one of bis employees, X. E. Browne, bad a miraculous escape from death. The car. a Chevrolet, was badly damaged. The force of the collision can be gauged from the fact that spokes from the front wheels were carried along the railway line for a distance of to yards. Neither man was hurt. £lO FINE. DUNEDIN, Sept. 23. At tlu> Police Court Marshalls Proprietary were charged with selling lime water under tho standard prescribed by tlie Sale of Food and Drugs Act, and was fined £lO sterling. DIED IN DENTIST’S CHAIR. AVAIHL Sept. 23. Alexander Robert Aitken, aged 31, a resident of Karangahnpe. collapsed in a dentist’s chair while under an anaesthetic, preparatory to the extraction of teeth. Massage ol the heart was unavailing. Deceased leaves a widow and three young children.