INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
» 4 A SAD CASE. CHILD FROM BACKBLOCKS. (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.! TE AWAMUTU, this day. An inquest was held yesterday concerning the death of a child three years old. the finding, in accordance with medical evidence, being that death followed an acute attack of infantile paralysis. The child came from Auckland a month ago and had been staying with friends twenty-eight miles out in bush country. , Constable Doyle, in evidence, stated on Friday he received advice that a suspected case of paralysis had occurred and that the parents were not in a financial position to enable them to seek medical attention, nor could they get a conveyance to remove the child from the backblocks. He communicated with the Health Department at Hamilton, and was advised that instructions would be sought urgently. Up to ' the present the Department had failed to give any instructions. The police, on their own initiative, arranged for another- settler to bring the child in and for a doctor to give attention free, but death occurred before such help could be given.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 187, 10 August 1925, Page 8
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