INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
The Public Health authorities have issued a statement with regard to the above epidemic and the precautions to be taken. The child, states the Department, should be kept in the fresh air, but away from the dust, and should not be taken to places where there was an aggregation of adults. Kissing should be absolutely forbidden, and seabathing and paddling, owing to. the liability of a chill, should not be allowed iu the meantime. The children should not be exposed to the bites of insects of whatever nature, and all domestic animals should be kept away from the children. Adult members of the iamiiy should gargle the throat daily with some mild antiseptic fluid, and should suck an antiseptic tablet from time to time, as for instance, formalin tablets. Eucalyptus might be inhaled with advantage, and all foodstuffs, especially milk, should be carefully guarded from flies. The notification of the disease was compulsory, and the isolation of all cases, vigorous disinfection, and in the case ot adults the gargling of the throat should then be carried out.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1510, 15 February 1916, Page 3
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179INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1510, 15 February 1916, Page 3
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