MILD FORM OF DISEASE
WELLINGTON PATIENTS P.A. WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. Four positive cases of infantile paralysis and two suspicious cases are at present in the Wellington Hospital. One of the suspicious cases was admitted on Tuesday and the other today. All the other suspected cases have been ruled out as cases of infantile paralysis, and the district medical officer of .health, Dr Hubert Smith, said to-day that some of them had been sent home. A case was diagnosed as positive, but the total of these remains at four as one case previously diagnosed as positive has been found to be a case of a nonepidemic type of meningitis. “So far the cases have fortunately been of a mild type,” said Dr Smith. Advice was also received by Dr Smith to-day of two suspected cases in. Nelson. They are two • young children in the same family.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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145MILD FORM OF DISEASE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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