INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1753, 17 November 1917, Page 2

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

STATEMENT BY CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER.

On His attention being culled to a reported case of infantile paralysis, and to the fear expressed in some quarters as to the spread of the disease, Dr. Valentine, Chief Health Officer, stated yesterday:— ‘•‘We are bound to have a few sporadic cases occurring. We have this disease among us. It has been epidemic in the Dominion for a considerable number of years, and we are always likely to have isolated cases. As in the case of other epidemics, it is only when there is a certain proportion of susceptible persons in a community that this disease takes epidemic form. So far as this disease is concerned there does not seem to be any occasion for alarm. The following are the numbers of cases which have occurred in the Dominion for some weeks past-, and the figures speak for themselves: — For the week ended 12th November, 3 cases —1 at Kaipara, 1 Hawkes Bay, and 1 Wanganui. For the previous week two cases were notified from Kaipara. For the week ended g9th October, 6 cases were notified from Kaipara and 1 from Waikato. For the previous week, 1 case (from Kaipara); and for the week ended 15th October, 2 cases —or 1 from Kaipara and 1 from Auckland; and for the week ended Bth October, 2 from Kaipara and 1 from Auckland.”