INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23915, 6 April 1943, Page 4

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

1 TWO MORE DEATHS REPORTED A boy aged 14 from a Christchurch suburb died of infantile paralysis yesterday. The death of a Greymouth woman, aged 30, was also reported. In addition, a boy aged four, from Temuka, and now in the Timaru Hospital, is a positive case,’and another case of a boy of six has been diagnosed as positive from Greymouth. Four suspected cases were notified on Friday. Of these two are now positive. The sufferers are two girls, aged three and two respectively, from Christchurch. In addition, one country case, a boy of five, is now pronounced positive.

There is a girl of 10 from the city still under suspicion. The case of a boy of three reported last week from Hillmorten is now said to be negative. There were five cases of tuberculosis reported from Canterbury last week, four of septic abortion, one of puerperal phrexia, one of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and six of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). TTiere were two deaths from tuberculosis in Canterbury, and one from poliomyelitis. There was one death from the latter disease on the West Coast, and two additional cases notified.