INFANTILE PARLAYSIS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 412, 20 April 1937, Page 4

INFANTILE PARLAYSIS.

PARENTS’ ANXIETY. Councillor Suggests Closing Of Schools. No support was accorded a motion by Councillor A. 11. Trotter at the meeiting of the Borough. Council last night, asking that schools in the Stratford district be closed on account of infantile paralysis cases. Cr. Tro.ter said there >Vere a number of parents around the town who thought th.jt isometh.in'g should be don?. When the epidemic was 700 miles away the schools were closed. Cr. W. P. P. Gordon said the council would only be making iltelf ridiculous if it supported the resolution. Right from the start the Health Departmrnt- had the matter of precautionary measures in hand. The disease was infectious, but to little infectious that out of thousands of cases over the last 20 years it iwtis a rare thing for two members of the same household to contract the disease. As far as its l spreading ■v.Gs concerned, not a great deal was known. It was evidently a disease from which a section of the community, including children, were immune. There had been sporadic outbreaks from year to year, and under present conditions he could &?e no reason for dislocating the community. The Mayor, Mr J. W. McMillan, said that Cr. Trotter had raised the question at the Works Committee meeting, but he would not agree to taking the matter further.