INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
THE EPIDEMIC SPREADINC. Fee Pukss Association. Wellington, March 2. Two cases of infantile paralysis woe reported in Wellington city to-day. They came from a residential quarter in the inner area. The number of 'cases reported from the "Wellington health district during the day was ten, made ii]) as follows:—Wellington City 2. Gishorne '2, Kapuni (Taranaki) 1. .New Plymouth 1, Hastings 1, and Hawera ii. "I'lie epidemic appears to he spreading in different parts of the country," said the Minister for Public Health. "The complaint has taken a particularly severe form in Gishorne, where several deaths have occurred. The district health officer visited Gishorne, and local people responded with great energy to his requests for increased sanitary efforts. The streets of the town are heing systematically watered with sea-water, this precaution being considered desirable in order to minimise the movement of the dust. Owing to the severity of the outbreak in Auckland the district health officers there has been given authority to close everv school where the trouble makes its appearance. Proposals wove made to the Department for closing all schools in the Auckland Education District, hut it was not considered necessary to take this step in areas where the disease has not appeared." Mr Russell added that in the opinion of officers of the Health Department the epidemic would subside when the weather became cooler, but in the meantime nobody should neglect reasonable precautions.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 75, 4 March 1916, Page 2
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