INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15512, 12 February 1916, Page 9

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

£EATH AT GISBORNE

(rr.Er? association- ti:lec.ram.> " February 11. Trfantiic paralysis Ua> made it, apin A girl f;l .six I ion) tin. can o at rno liospi-•VCf'-rJcnl»v. anil there ; ,re at present V \,,"her .-W-, in t.'ie institution one Zll tJic other «« infant. \ CASK IN WELLINGTON. .. r «s association TLLE(.UaM.) \n-LU.NGTON. February 11. The officers of the Heaj'.h Departni cut Jtc that infantile para.yMs hasreachi 'Wellington. but ,ar v °" f ' irlv established ' ::!S " cl l the citv. Another ease ipr'r" t, y | TheHenhh Department i-> * c lcs« attention to the trouble ' here anil elseffhtrc. THE AUCKLAND OI.TBRKAK. •r e ri additional ca-i> oi infantile paralysis "ere notilied at Auckland yesieComracnting on the severe outbreak of infant,!,; para ys.yn Auckland citv and province, the Herald ta v s that the peculiar features obscrv- " f epidemics "f the disease in otlier tries have been displayed on tins occasion. Though a notable advanco has been made in recent years in the stink of the bactenologv of the di - M «e" the search for the means of its domination has been baffled by the .poradic manner in which the eases orcar. No part of the city and. its suburb's has escaped, though tho incidence of the disease; does not appear to bear jr.v relation to the general condition of equitation in any locality. Past experience indicates that the disease not-attributable to insanitary conditions in the generally accepted sense of the terra, and comparatively few cases been reported from those congested portions of the citv v.-lncn ■would ho regarded as susceptible to most epidemics. A few cases have occurred'in the northern suburbs across tho harbour. The incomprehensible distribution of the disease is equally ftrikin" in the country districts. A fpn- rases hare been reported J'rom Hplcn'-viHo. but no others have occurred north of the city area. From Otahchn along the main railway line far distant as MorrinsTillo and ' Kihikibi the disease has appeared in a number of the townships, but never more than a few eases in each locality.