INFANTILE PARALYSIS
to tub r.DiTOH or thk rues?. Sir.—ln view of the number of cases of infantile paralysis, owing to direct contact with Dunedin people, Would it not be possible to have some means of discovering whether some of these travellers are carriers or not. Would it not be practicable to take a swab of the throat, as in cases of diphtheria? If that were not possible, are there no effective means of sprayin« travellers leaving affected areas? Dunedin people seem to be very numerous at holiday resorts. Even in the most isolated places it is difficult to avoid contact with them. Whether they have left Dunedin before of after the half-hearted quarantine restrictions had been imposed is a matter for conjecture.—Yours, etc.. J ANXIOUS MOTHER. January 6, 1937. TDr T. Fletcher Telford. Medical Officer of Health for CanterburyWestland. said yesterday that the department had taken all reasonable precautions to check the spread of the disease. The method of determining whether a person was a carrier of the disease by taking a swab, as was mentioned in the letter, would be impracticable.]
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 17
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