SIX SUSPECTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 4

SIX SUSPECTS

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL ADMISSION YESTERDAY NO MORE POSITIVE CASES P.A. AUCKLAND. Dec. 8. No positive cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Central Auckland health district to-day, but since Sunday night the number of suspect cases at Auckland Hospital has increased from 12 to 18. Thirty-two positive cases, 29 of them chidren, are in hospital. Of three adults, two are women, a second empty ward in the Domain block of the hospital to be brought into use fo r paralysis cases was occupied to-day. One former positive case ut the hospital, a male child, has lccovered sufficiently to go home and was discharged at the week-end. Districts from which positive cases have ben admitted are: Kaukapakapa, 1 case; Avondale, 1; Point Chevalier, 3; Mount Albert, 1; Grey Lynn. 2; Herne Bay, 1: Ponsonby. 3; Newton 1, City, 3; Parnell, 1; Mission Bay, 3; Remuera, 3; Epsom. 2; Mangere, 1; Papakura, 2; Hunua, 3; Karaka, 1.

The restrictions have placed motor and other communal camps out of bounds to many families which include children under 16 years of age, but many parents have been inquiring at the Health Department whether other holiday arrangements would be affected by the outbreak. The medical officer of health. Dr L. S. Davis, said he considered it would be undesirable for people to take children to hotels and boarding houses during the er»idemic. It was not possible to give advice that would cover all individual holiday arrangement*; hut there w>s no question that children should not be. taken into hotels and boarding houses.