INFANTILE PARALYSIS
FIVE CASES IN THE SOUTH NO CAUSE FOR ALARM (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH. To-day. F o cases of infantile paralysis have occurred in Christchurch during the past week, in addition to other cases previously reported, which is an unusual number for this time of the year. The doctors, however, think the possibility of a serious epidemic is most unlikely. “Five cases in a week is more than one would expect,” said a doctor, ‘‘but it: is not a dangerously high number. There is no need at all to be worried about it. “1 know of one private school that has been closed, but chat is always done when one case occurs among the pupils.” Another doctor, a specialist in the disease, declared that it was too late in the season for there to be any danger of a real epidemic. “We get a few rases every summer,” he said, “and though five is rather too many for one week, there is absolutely no need to get the wind up.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 302, 13 March 1928, Page 1
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