INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 325, 5 January 1937, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES.

SEVEN TOWNS IN ALL. Last Few Days Hearten Authorities Press Association —Copyright. Dunedin, Last Night. ’ Suspected or positive cases o£ infantile paralysis are at present located. in seven different centres in New Zealand. There are cases at Dunedin, Gore, New Plymouth, Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington and Timaru. The heartening position of the last few days with regard to the number of admissions to the Dunedin hospital of infantile paralysis- cases was .maintained to-day, there being only one person admitted. The patient was a man aged 21 from Woodhaugh, but the case has not been diagnosed- as positive, being for observation only. Since 9 a.m. on Saturday only three cases have been admitted, one positive and two for observation. All are persons over the age of 21 years. There are no suspected cases of infantile paralysis at Christchurch. A child admitted to hospital on Saturday has been discharged. A man and his wife, residents of Mt. Somers, who went to Dunedin for the holidays, returning during the week-end, have been isolated and the isolation will continue tor 10 days. A young man, aged 24, a resident of Ponsonby, was admitted to the Auckland hospital yesterday and is being kept under observation as a suspected case of infantile paralysis. The young girl admitted as a suspect on Friday was found to be suffering from a different ailment. The first Auckland case, a four year old girl who is now in hospital, is reported to be in a satisfactory condition. A suspected case of infantile paralysis, a girl aged eight, was admitted to the Tilmaru hospital to-day. The girl has been staying iin the country and as far as is known has not been in contact with any outsiders.

NO FURTHER CASES. Alarming Rumours Spreading In Stratford. Many alarming rumours were circulating in Stratford .last evening concerning cases of infantile paralysis at Douglas, where a death was supposed to have occurred and at Pembroke Road. The latter rumour arose because a woman from that area had been staying with the Fitzroy family, whose 27-year-old son is in hospital in New Plymouth. There is no risk whatever in this case, the “Central Press” is assured, and the woman in question is to be strictly quarantined for the required ten days. At no time has she been in contact with the New Plymouth patient and rumours concerning her health are entirely unfounded.