INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2863, 26 March 1925, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

ADULT CASE FROAI FOXTON. A case of infanlils paralysis was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital on Tuesday. The patient is a young man aged 20 years from Foxton. His condition was reported as serious.

There were two further cases of infantile paralysis admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital during the past twenty-four hours. The patients were brothers, aged sixteen and twenty years respectively, from Glen Oroua. Both cases are of a mild form. The other patients at present in the institution are progressing as favourably as can be expected. There has been no further responses to the authorities’ appeal for serum blood, nor have there been any further discharges of convalescents. Palmerston North has now been free for several days, while the number of admissions from the outlying district shows a decrease. Pahiatua, Last Night. One case of infantile paralysis from the Pongaroa district, and one from the main road at Pahiatua, are reported. Both victims are beys. Christchurch, Last Night. Six new cases of infantile paralysis have been reported since noon yesterday,, including one in the city. A death occurred in the hospital ibis morning, that of a boy two years.of age, from Redeliffs. Alost of the adult cases are proving negative. Gisborne, Last Night. A two-year-old boy from MannInke was admitted to Cook hospital to-day suffering from infantile paralysis. Onmnru, Last Night. A suspected case of infantile paralysis, a, child from Alaheno, was admitted to the Onmnru hospital to-day.

TWRXTY-K1 (lIIT DOMINION CASES. Wellington, Last Night. Cases of infantile paralysis for 24 hours to noon total 28, Ihe notifications are as follows: —Auckland 9 (Devonporl, Paeroa, Alatiere, Alorrinsville and Karapiro, 1 each), Hamilton 4; Wellington 11 (Norman!.)}', Oamii, Gisborne, Mohaka, CarleHon and Tiakilahuna, 1), Wanganui 2, Hastings 3; Canterbury (i (Christchurch, Isington, Rotherham and Ilarihari 1 each), T’.maru 2; Otago 2 (Dunedin 1, High cliff 1). We are pleased to report that the six-year-old son of Mr and Alls W. H. Smith, of Moutoa, has been discharged from the Palmerston N. Hospital completely cured of infantile paralysis.