INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 8

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

THK EPIDEMIC SPREADING.' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 2. Two eases of infantile paralysis were reported in Wellington city to-day. They came from a residential quarter in the inner area. The number of eases reported from the Wellington health district during the day was ten. made up as follows:—Wellington eitv 2. Oisborne 2, Kapnni (Taranaki) ], New Plymouth 1, Hastings 1, and Hawera 3. "The epidemic appears to be spreading in different parts of the country." said the Minister for Public Health. "The complaint has taken a particularly severe form in Gi6borne, where several deaths have occurred. The district health officer visited Oisborne, and local people responded with great energy to his requests for increased sanitary efforts. The streets of the town are being systematically watered with seawater, this precaution being considered desirable in order to minimise the movement of the dust. Owing to the severity of_ the outbreak in Auckland the district health officers there have been given. authority to close every school where the trouble makes its appearance. Proposals were made to the Department for closing all schools in the Auckland Education District, but it was not considered necessary to take this step in areas where the disease has not appeared." Mr. Russell added that in the opinion of officers of the Health Department the epidemic would subside when the weather became cooler, but in the mean--1 time nobody should neglect reasonable precautions.