INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 356, 10 February 1937, Page 5

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

No Further Notifications At Dunedin. Press Association—Copyright. Dunedin, February 9. There were no infantile paralysis notifications to-day. There are at present 41 patient in Dunedin Hospital suffering from varying degrees of paralysis, but the majority of the cases are comparatively light and none is on the seriously ill list. Restrictions against the reassem-i bling of Sunday schools because of the epidemic have been lifted, and the Department of Health advises that that Sunday schools may now reopen. The opening of day schools is still not permitted until March 1, said Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, yesterday, but this is because attendance there is compulsory, whereas with Sunday schools and similar voluntary institutions parents can use their own judgment as to whether they send their children or not. The lifting of travelling restrictions on children in the South Island on Saturday resulted in a larger number of passengers being carried on trains than for some time past. Four extra cars were attached to the north-bound express from Dunedin.