SOUTHLAND CASE OF PARALYSIS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 331, 12 January 1937, Page 5

SOUTHLAND CASE OF PARALYSIS.

THREE AT AUCKLAND.

Medical Officer Says There Is No Cause For Alarm

Press Association—Copyright. Invercargill, Last Night

A boy, aged eight years, residing at Lumsden, has been admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from infantile paralysis. This is the third positive case reported in Southland during the present epidemic. The first case, that of a young man from Riversdale, ended fatally and a boy from Wendonside is now a patient in the Gore Hosp-tal. Auckland Cases. There are now three positive infantile paralysis cases at Auckland. They are a young girl who was admitted 12 days ago and is progressing favourably; a young man from a suburban farm, who entered hospital on Thursday and is a mild case; and also a young man, a mild case, brought from a country district on Fridaynight. A boy admitted as a suspected case on Saturday was found not to be suffering from paralysis. The suspected case of paralysis at the Kawakawa Hospital has been proved negative. Another case, that of a baby boy who came from Opononi a week ago, has been definitely diagnosed as paralysis, but not serious. The patient is isolated. The girl, aged 16, from Bushside, admitted to the Ashburton Hospital on Wednesday as a paralysis suspect, has been diagnosed as a mild positive case. No Undue Alarm. Commenting on the prevalence of cases of paralysis during an epidemic. Dr. Telford, medical officer in Canterbury, said that there was no cause at present for any undue alarm. In a recent investigation of the statistics of communicable diseases reported to a conference of health authorities at Washington it was shown that sporadic cases of polyomyelitis were likely to occur at any time.-The majority of cases, however, occurred in epidemics of carying severity, but it was not often that more than two cases per 1000 of population occurred in an epidemic.