FRESH SUSPECT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 6

FRESH SUSPECT.

CHILD PARALYSIS.

YOUNG MAN FROM COUNTRY.

KEPT UNDER OBSERVATION.

A fresh development in the infantile paralysis situation in Auckland was the admission to the Auckland Hospital late last night of a new suspected case. The patient, a young man, is being kept under observation.

The new suspect is believed to be between 23 and 24 years of age, and he was brought in from a country district some distance from Auckland. It is too early yet to state whether or not he is a positive case. His condition is satisfactory.

The young man, also aged about 24, who was admitted ou Thursday night as a suspect, was reported yesterday, as appeared in the first edition of the "Star," to have been found to be a mild positive case. A later report, however, was to the effect that his case was still doubtful. The position remains the same to-day, and up till early this afternoon no definite diagnosis could be announced. The man is being kept under the closest observe lion and is beiii}r treated in the meantime as a positive case. His condition is not serious. The only positive case here, that of a small girl, continues to show improvement in her condition.

POSITION IN DUNEDIN. MAN DANGEROUSLY ILL (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Of three suspects admitted to hospital, all are now proved to be positive cases. A young man, aged 26, of Dunedin, is dangerously ill, and a girl aged two years, of Port Chalmers, is paralysed. Another girl, aged 2J years, of Dunedin, is without paralysis.