FREE MOVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 8

FREE MOVEMENT.

CHILDREN IN CITY. I PICTURES AGAIN TO-MORROW. HEALTH CAMPS TO OPEN. With the lifting on Saturday of the ban on the free movement of children, imposed as a precaution against infantile paralysis, restrictions will no longer apply to picture theatres or to health camps. Though the ban will not be officially lifted until Saturday, the Health Department lias raised no objection to the admission of children to picture theatres to-morrow. Programmes in many theatres change to-morrow night, and the Department has met the wishes of theatre managers, who have co-operated faithfully with the Department throughout the period of dancer. When strict precautions against the spread of the disease in Auckland were taken by the Health Department, picture theatre proprietors in the city and suburbs were prompt in their action in banning cliildren frqm their theatres. Considerable financial loss has consequently been suffered by the theatres, but the public-spirited action of the owners in complying with the Health Department's request nearly fix weeks ago has been deeply appreciated by the Department's officials and those responsible for guarding against a spread of the disease in Auckland. Health camps have also been advised by the Health Department that they are permitted to continue their operations, provided that the children are medically examined before going to camp. Sir George Richardson, president of the Community Sunshine Association, said this morning that the first of the association's camps on Motuihi Island would open on February 16. Notices were being sent to the families concerned, and arrangements were being made with the Health Department to examine the children. Camps would be held every three weeks until the end of May. Children from country districts would form a proportion in each camp, only those classed in category C as under-developed being accepted. In the first camp there would be some 200 children, including, the association hoped, 111 children from Thames. In each of the camps there would be about the same aggregate number, 200. Further, the Health Department has no objection to children attending Sunday schools as from Sunday next. When the danger irom the disease was at its height, the congregation of children at Sunday schools was discouraged, but the position is normal again. WOMAN AFFECTED. ADMISSION AT DUNEDIN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. There have been no notifications of paralysis from the Dunedin city area for some days, but a case was admitted to the Public Hospital last night from Moeraki. a Dunedin woman, aged 22, who has been visiting there. The case has been diagnosed as positive, with slight paralysis. A girl of five yearn of age hae been admitted to the Oamaru Hospital for observation. SCHOOL DENTAL CLINICS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The school dental clinics will reopen on Monday, March 1, ths same date as that provisionally fixed for the reopening of all schools throughout the Dominion. The staffs will return to duty on February 22. TWO CASES AT OAMARU. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) OAMARU, Wednesday. A positive case of infantile paralysis, a fix-year-old girl from Knfield. was admitted to the Oamaru Public Hospital on Tuesday. She is suffering from muscular weakness. A suspected case from within the borough of Oamaru (the finst case), was admitted to hospital to-day, the patient being a boy five to six years of age. SIXTH SOUTHLAND CASE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. The sixth case of infantile paralysis to be reported in the Southland district and the fourth to be received at the Invcrcargill Hospital, that of a young woman (20) from the Riverton district, was admitted at a late hour last evening. It is too early yet for the doctors to state whether her symptoms are serious. THREE PATIENTS AFFECTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. A case of infantile paralysis in the city was reported to thi medical officer of. health to-day. The patient is a woman, aged 19, who was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital on Monday evening for observation. The diagnosis was completed to-day and proved positive. There is no paralysis. This is the first case reported for a fortnight. A small boy, aged three years, from Studholme Junction, has been admitted to the Waimate Hospital with slight paralysis, and a girl, aged nine, has been admitted to the Timaru Hospital from the town area.