Two More Fatal Cases

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 21, 26 January 1937, Page 6

Two More Fatal Cases

FURTHER ADMISSIONS OF PARALYSIS VICTIMS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 25. The death occurred last evening of the boy of 12, a resident of Anderson's Bay, who was reported on Saturday to be suffering from respiratory paralysis. He had been holidaying at Warrington and was being treated privately at his home. This was the only infantile paralysis case notified in the Dunedin district for a week. A positive case of infantile paralysis, a boy aged 14 from Luggate, was admitted to hospital at Clyde M-day.

NEGATIVE DIAGNOSIS.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The woman of forty from Miramar who was admitted to the Wellington Public Hospital on Saturday for observation as a suspected case of infantile paralysis has been proved negative. This leaves Wellington with only one positive case in hospital.

FATAL CASE AT OAMARU.

Per Press Association. OAMARU, Jan. 25. The youth, aged 19, admitted to the Oamaru Hospital from Kauru Hill last Thursday with infantile paralysis, died last evening.

FREE FROM DISEASE.

Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Jan. 25. Advice received from the Wellington health authorities states that the case of the boy of six admitted to the Picton Hospital as a suspected sufferer from infantile paralysis Las been diagnosed as negative. Consequently the quarantine restrictions on the boy's family and others having contact with him have been removed.

CASE AT TIMARU.

TIMARU, Last Night. After freedom from cases of infantile paralysis for three weeks, a case of a young married man, 29 years of age, was admitted to Timaru Hospital today. The case was diagnosed as positive but without paralysis.

NO CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. No further cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Dunedin to-day. A 14-year-old boy from Luggate was admitted to Clyde hospital on Sunday and on examination proved to be a positive case of infection.

SUGGESTION FOR INVESTIGA. TION.

DOG DISTEMPER AS POSSIBLE SCOURGE OF INFECTION. Per Press Association. MASTERTON, Last Night. The possibility that distemper in dogs may have some bearing on the infantile paralysis infection, is suggested by a Wairarapa farmer, Mr E. F. Barton. Mr Barton said he had noted during the infantile paralysis epidemic of 1925, a number of cases—he instanced ten or more—in which children who contracted the disease had previously beeu more or less in contact with dogs suffeding or loss in contact with dogs suffering from distemper and in some instances had tended sick animals. He made it clear that he merely gave the results of his observations for w-hnt they were worth and as possibly deserving the attention of those who were investigating the sources and methods of infantile paralysis infection.