INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 83, 14 March 1916, Page 5

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

SPREAD OF THE DISEASE.

FATAL CASE AT NGAERE.

HOSPITAL BOARD ACTION.

In Taranaki the dreaded disease of anterior poliomyelitis, commonly known as infantile paralysis, is extending its ramifications, and to-day it hag to be recorded that a child of twelve yell's succumbed after being: ill for only twenty-foUr hours, while another case of a child of four has been isolated. Members of the Hospital Board were faced with the position at the meeting this morning, and the local authority, the Borough Council, came in for some trenchant criticism. "Whoever is to blame, if such can be laid on the shoulders of any particular body, there is nothing to prevent all residents from exercising the greatest care in the sanitary arrangements about their homes and places of business. At the Board's meeting this morning, the Sanitary Inspector reported that two cases of anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) were notified in the Stratford County.' Both cases We being! ;■ nursed at' home.. • One. of the patients was removed to his home in Stratford, and the premises where he had been were^djsinfectecji... j||H precautions are being takeA'against the' spread of the . disease. 1' h . t The Chairman reported that he had received word that morning from Dr.