INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 66, 17 March 1916, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

SECOND CLEAR DAT. NO CASES FROM CITY OR COUNTRY. For the second day no notifications of fresh cases of infantile paralysis have been received at the local Public Health Office. For two consecutive days both country and the city and suburban area have been immune from new cases, and it is anticipated that the decided disposition of the weather to become cooler, together with the heavy rain of to-day, will have a still further beneficial effect in eradicating the disease. The total number of notifications to date is 387, of which 217 cases Jiave been in rural districts, and 170 in city and suburban areas. The deaths total 30, of which 20 have occurred in the city and 16 in the country. THE CLOSED SCHOOLS. RE-OPEN MONDAY. WITH SOME COUNTRY EXCEPTIONS. The Auckland Education Board announces that the following schools will be clo6ed for another -week, on>the recommendation of the health authorities: Cambridge, Cambridge West, Monavale, Rototuna, Hamilton Eaet, Hamilton West, Hautapu, Helensville, Pukekohe, Te Pua, Turua, Thames (three Frankton. The other schools closed till the end of this week will re-open on Monday nest, and the town and suburban schools will also re-open then. BROUGHT BY LETTEB. SINGULAR CASE AT PATEA. The "Wanganui Herald" states that at this week's meeting of the Patea •Hospital Board the health inspector reported that at Patea two children, one aged eeyen and the other three years, had been stricken down with infantile paralysis. Neither of the patients had been away from Patea since the New Year, and the source of infection was unknown. Four days previous to the children becoming ill, a letter was received into the house from Te Puke The. house from which the letter camhad contained an infantile paralysis patient -who had died from the disease The.inspector stated he had been advieing< householders, where cases were isolated, to limit letter-writing to the minimum, and to bake all letters that must be written in the kitchen oven. It was reported at the meeting that the youngest child referred to above had died from the effects of the dread disease.

CASES IN THE SOUTH.

GISBORNE, Thursday. There have been no further cases of infantile paralysis notified'to the local Health authorities since Tuesday afternoon. There has been one case only from town eince Wednesday March 8

BAWERA, Thursday. Another case of infantile paralysis has-been reported at Patea and one at

WELLINGTON, Thursday. One case of infantile paralysis was notified in the city to-day

NAPIEK, Thursday