INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
New Plymouth, June 17. Speaking at a meeting of the Hospital Board to-day, Dr Valintiae, Inspector-General of Hospitals, touched on infantile paralysis. He said that in dealing with the disease the Department was often hampered by the want of unanimity on the part of medical men as to its infectivity. Information, though meagre, was to the effect that it was infectious, and this was bourne out by evidence of the Dunedin epidemic. In any case, the disease was sufficiently serious to be treated with every precaution, for while the mortality had not been very great the resultant paralysis, though not so great as in the case of other diseases, was still not inconsiderable. The Health Department had declared the disease notifiable, and used precautions similar to those adopted in regard to scarlet fever. Anyone not notifying a case was liable to a penalty.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1260, 18 June 1914, Page 3
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145INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1260, 18 June 1914, Page 3
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