NO NEW CASES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 410, 17 April 1937, Page 4

NO NEW CASES

INFANTILE PARALYSIS ■ ■ Position in Stratford Hospital District. • No new cases of infantile paralysis in the Stratford Hospital Board's district have been reported, Dr. W. Brown, Medical Superintendent of the Stratford Hospital, advised the "Central Press” this afternoon. The condition of the patient admitted from Finnerty Road, Ngaere, is unchanged. CASES ELSEWHERE ! Press Association —Copyright. I Palmerston N., April 16. ! The admission of a thrce-year-old • child to the Palmerston North Hospital to-day brings the city’s paralysis cases to three and the district cases to 13. The Hokowhitu School has j been closed, also three Sunday schools ! in the suburb of Terrace End. i Two cases of infantile paralysis I were reported in the East Cape health | district to-day. One was at Te Wa- ! iti and was admitted to the Rotorua | hospital, and the other was a 14-year j old girl in the borough of Gisborne. | The latter was admitted to the Cook • Hospital as a mild case. There have ! now been 1.8 notifications in the East ' Cape health district. The Education • Board has closed all schools in the Wairoa district north of Kubaka. The third case of paralysis from Arapuni was admitted to the Waikato Hospital to-day. It was a boy aged eight months. A Maori girl aged five was sent to hospital on Wednesday for observation and her condition was found positive. The cases occurred just after the Arapuni school opened, when the district was consid- ! cred free after the first case. The school has been closed again. Two further cases of suspected paralysis were admitted to the Masterton Hospital to-day—a boy of seven months from Grey town and a boy of two from Featherston. This makes a total of eight cases, six being from Greytown. Onty two, however, have yet been diagnosed as positive. All the cases are children. Three positive cases were admitted to the Wellington Hospital to-day from | the Wellington health district. One | is a boy of six from Paraparumu, anj other a girl aged 12 from Ngaio, and | the third a boy aged seven from Mirai mar. Another case of a boy aged 16 i from Brooklyn proved to be negative, j A boy of four admitted on Thursday j has been diagnosed as positive withj out paralysis. The other aspect adI mitted on Thursday, a boy of six, : from Miramar, proved negative.