INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 5

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

FIVE FRESH CASES.

POSITION OF THE SCHOOLS.

FURTHER CLOSING PROBABLE.

Five fresh cases of infantile paralysis have been reported since yesterday. Two were from the North Auckland district, one from Central Auckland and two from South. Auckland. As can'be seen from the figures of the past few days, there is a small, but steady number "of cases daily. The Schools.

Regarding tho schools, the Health Department has issued the following statement:—■

"All schools are to be kept closed until March IC, at least, and may be closed for a further period. The fifth and sixth form classes in secondary schools and equivalent forms in Technical schools in the North Island may possibly be opened as from March 16. In the meantime, all restrictions remain in force."

Of the 37 deaths -that had occurred at the end of February, IS were males and 19 females. A further analysis of the figures shows that 31 of the "fatal cases were under the age of 10 years, and the remaining six between 1G and 40. In the previous epidemic it -was founu that the greatest number of deatha occurred with patients under 12 months and over 20 years.

One reassuring feature of the present epidemic is that the number of cases is less than the epidemic of 1916. Compared with a similar period in that year there were about 100 more notifications than in the present epidemic.