INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 11

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

ANOTHER HAMILTON CASE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. A schoolgirl, aged five, from Hamilton East, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital this morning as a positive case of infantile paralysis.

YOUNG MAN VICTIM. I I I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIPUKURAU, this day. A man. aged 21, from Takapau, was admitted to the Waipukurau Hospital suffering' from infantile paralysis yesterday. He is paralysed in one lejr. This is the fifth case in Central Hawke's Bay. HASTINGS SUFFERER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. For the second time this week a case of infantile paralysis has been reported in Hastings, the health authorities having been advised that a girl, aged 15 years, has been diagnosed as a positive case. CHRISTCHURCH CASES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Four further eases of infantile, paralysis were notified to the Canterbury Medical Officer of Health yesterday. The patients are a boy, aged 15 months, from Cashmere Hills; a girl, aged l~i months, from the city area; a boy, aged seven years, from Kaikoura; and a boy, six years, from Waimate Borough. POSITION AT PALMERSTON N. (By Telegraph—rress Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday.

The boy of seven years from the city, who was admitted to hospital, has been diagnosed as a positive case of infantile paralysis. A further ca<se of a boy of seven, who also a positive case, was admitted from Cheltenham to-day, as also was a boy, aged three, who is a suspect, from the city. There are now 25 positive cases in the institution, covering the whole Manawatu area.

SOUTH WESTXAND CASE. (B7 Telegraph.—Press Association.) HOKITIKA, Friday. A positive case of infantile paralysis, a girl of 13 years, was admitted to the Westland Hospital from Webeka, South Westland.