INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
SPREADING IN CHRISTCHURCH TWENTY CASES IN HOSPITAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The official report on infantile paralysis In Christchurch to-day is that the disease has a tendency to increase here. The chairman of the Hospital Board stated yesterday that there were sixteen cases in the Christchurch hospital, but Dr. Telford reported at noon to-day that there were twenty cases in the hospital then, and that there are more to go in. The patients in hospital are isolated, and precautions are taken against a spread of infection. The Health Department has given instructions that all cases of the disease must be notified in order that infection may be prevented in the homes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1921, Page 4
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115INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1921, Page 4
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