INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
LATEST NOTIFICATIONS. Between 10 p.m. on Thursday and noon yesterday only ono ease cf suspected infantile paralvsis w:'.e notified:— Girl. 2 years. Methven. The Medical Officer of Health lias received official notification of an infantile paralysis patient'—girl. 10 years. Grey road. Timr.ru —which oecuired on Wednesday. The following case, recently notified, has been diagnosed as positive:— Boy. 12 years, Cadogan street, Sydenham.. Cases that have been diagnosed as negative are as follows: Boy, 9 years, Andover street. City. Girl. 3 years. Hari Hari. South Westland. Woman. 32 years. TinwakL Boy, 7 years, Kaikoura. • An additional notification was received by the Health Department yei.ite relay afternoon, that of a patient. 14 years of :!ge. sex not stated, from Ilangiora district. Progress of Cases in Hospital. Dr. AV: Fox, Medical .Superintendent, Cliristehurch Hospital, has informed the Medic-.il 'Officer of Health that most of the eases in hospital that arc paralysed are beginning to clear up very well? Dr. Fox anticipates that within a month or twc. (juite a. number of the patients will bo back t" their normal condition. This satisfactory state of things indicates that the beneficial effects of the icruin arc becoming very ovident. Jf no objections are raised by the parents, post-mortem examinations arc made of tho _ bodies of patients who •died from infantile paralysis at '.lie Christchurch Hospital, and in thit. way much .valuable knowledge has been gained by the medical officers. The success of the treatment at the Hospital is shown by the comparatively low death-rate. DOMINION NOTIFICATIONS. (frzss association- tblegbam.) WELLINGTON. March 27. The infantile paralysis, notifications for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. to-day were as follow:—Auckland 2, Welling'tbon 6, Canterbury l,*Ctago 3. ANOTHER CASE IN MID- CANTERBURY. Another case of infantile rjiraJysis was admitted, to tho Ashburton County Hospital yesterday—a two-yior-old girl from Methven. The case has been diagnosed as positive. The child belongs to Hinds, and had been spending some time at Methven. NEGATIVE CASE AT HOKITIKA. (iPBCIAL TO "THE PMBS.") GItEYMOUTH, March 27. The third suspected case of infantileparalysis in the" Hokitika district lias been pronounced negative.
PASSENGERS QUARANTINED. (press association- tbligbaji.) AUCKLAND. March 27. Owing to infantile paralysis. iNew Zealand passengers from Auckland who journeyed to the Islands by the Tor'ua on -her last trip were quarantined at Suva for ten days. A DANNEVIRKE CASE. (PEBSS ASSOCIATION '.ILEOIUM.) DANNEVIRKE, March 27. A case of infantile paralysis—a Maori baby, Dine months old —was adimitted to' the Dannevirke Hospital from Tahoraite to-day. It is tho first case locally for some weeks. BACTERIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. (mESS ASSOCIATIOfi TELZGEAH.) WELLINGTON, March 27. Dr. Hector, of Wellington, who has had extensive experience in bacteriological work, has been appointed by thc Government to co-operate with Dr. HerCUB in a bacteriological investigation of infantile paralysis and other diseases at the Otago Medical School laboratory. Dr. Hector will take up his duties within a fortnight.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 13
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