INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21988, 12 January 1937, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

TO TBK BSITOa 0» THS FUSS. Sir, —Although one must compliment the health authorities on their actions in regards to the spreading of this disease, one feels rather peeved when one sees that all sports meetings in Christchurch for this month have been either abandoned or postponed, and yet in Timaru. an infected area, a trotting club has decided to hold a race meeting.

I wonder why it is that race meetings are not postponed? Hundreds of people from cities all over this province will jouniey to Timaru, an area which is infected. About a week after, we; may see that cases are all over the province' and the health authorities will be most concerned— Yours, etc., SWIMMER-

January 9, 1937. [“The meeting is one for adults and the advertisements specifically state that children under 16 will not be admitted,” said Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, Medical Officer of Health for the Can-terbury-Westland district, when this letter was referred to him. Dr. Telford added that the racing club had undertaken to man the gates in order to prevent the entrance of children to the course. There would be no special trains from Christchurch to Timaru for the meeting, except the train for horses and jockeys, and it was tinlikely that children would be taken on the ordinary trains.]