INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1223, 21 March 1914, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

FIVE CASKS IN WELLINGTON DISTRICT. Five cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in the Wellington hospital district. The announcement was made to the Wellington Hospital Board by the chairman at Thursday’s meeting. The report on the matter stated that two cases had occurred in Wellington, one at Shannon and two in Levin, one of which was fatal. In one instance the disease followed an injury received to the nose from which the patient (a sixteen-year-old male) never recovered. “The history of this patient’s family is very sad,’’ said the report. “This makes the sixth case in the family, five other members having died under three years of age from this disease.’’ In the case of a male eight and a half years of age, the onset of the disease was influenza and catarrh of the stomach. Six days later the patient lost the use of his right leg, and could not sit up or turn his head. In the case of a female, twenty-two years ot age, paralysis of the foot set in five days after the onset, and later general paralysis set in, and the patient died in four hours.