INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 341, 23 January 1937, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Worst Of Epidemic Over At Dunedin. i Press Association—Copyright. Dunedin, Last Night. | An indication that the worst of the I infantile paralysis epidemic at Dune- | din is pparently over is provided by I I’ie fact that since last Saturday only I one case has been admitted to the ! Fu. din hospial, the victim be’ng a ; young man from Central Otago, i There were no notifications to-day at [ Dunedin, although one positive case i a 19 year-old youth, was admitted to 1 the Oamaru hospital. i A . uspected case of infantile paralysis. a boy six years of age living | between Blenheim and Picton, has i be n admittd to the Picton hospital 1 for observation. The case is the first i eported in the Marlborough province and steps have been taken to quarantine immediately contacts of the uoy. Blood tests have been taken and forwarded to Wellington for ex- * amination. The Blenheim office of i the Health Department states that | investigations do not disclose the , source living on an isolated farm and been living on an isolater farm and has received no visitors in recent weeks.