INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

THE WALKING CUKE. , A "Walking cure'' for infantile paralysis i s giving most excellent results at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London. Under the old system a child was kept in. bed, and massage and electricity were used to keep the muscles from wasting. Now, through a splint made of non-inflam-mable material of extreme lightness and strength perfected by Dr. Batten, of the hospital, the children are taught to walk as soon as the pain of the seizure is over. The weight of the body is supported in a kind of crawling chair. The paralysed muscles suffer a minimum of , wasting, and the injured nerves regain power rapidly. > "I believe everyone has a right to his or her opinion," writes a correspondent of the. Hawke's Bay Herald, "and mini) is that thi s infantile paralysis is either sunstroke, or paralysis . brought on through sunstroke. It is only since the hatless brigade in that we hear so niHch about this terrible affliction, and read of such a number of deaths caused by it, so my advice to mothers is to keep hats on their children, and to young men to leave off wearing caps. They are no protection in such hot weather as we have experienced. lam sure if this course were followed, the anxious time people are now having would soon be at an end."