INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4812, 18 February 1925, Page 2

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

AUCKLAND PROVENCI AL DISTRICT NO NEW NOTIFICATIONS. Yesterday, for the second time recently, there have been no new noti--fications of eases of infantile paralysis i eported to the Auckland Health Department, Seme interesting particulars regaiding cases dealt with up to. the. present were given by the Health Department to an Auckland ‘Star” representative yesterday. It was pointed out that so far as cases in the Auckland city and suburban areas were concerned, all the serious ones,- ■ with about three exceptions, had been removed to the city hospital. Thus the great majority of patients wln_were being treated in their own homes’!! were suffering from mild, abortive attacks, which had every prospect of passing off without leaving any ill J: effects. Under the therefore, it was impossible to sub-j£ stantiatc claims .that numbens of severe cases, as such, had been cured cutside the"! hospital by one means or anotherjif Practically the whole of the bad . were in hospital undergoing orthodox® treatment. A considerable were now' on the road to recovery, but;-® were being kept in the hospital fonal massage and other treatment to ovef-Sg come the effects of the Quite a number of the mild cases had complete recoveries within three;', or four days of being notified. .- THREE MONTHS’ FIGURES, 69 DEATHS FROM 522 CASES. WELLINGTON, yesterflay. A meeting of the Board of was held to-day in Wellington, Sir .■ Maui Pomare, Minister for Health; a presiding. Dr. T. H. A. Valintine,’"? Director-General of Health, gave au interesting summary of the epidemic,’ and tne measures taken by the. Health Department to deal witn it. He said that from the commencement’ of the epidemic in late November until Monday, the 19th, 522 cases had:been notified, and 69 deaths had occurred This rate of mortality of 13.3 per cent, could be only very slightly increased by possible deaths yet to . occur of cases notified within the lastfew days. ■■■.?- The distribution was as follows: Auckland health district, 163 Cases, ; 30 deaths : Wellington, 318 cases, 35 deaths; Canterbury. 38 cases, 3 i deaths; Otago, 4 cases, 1 death; total for the Dominion, 522 cases, 69 deaths. L