NO MORE CASES IN AUCKLAND

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25363, 10 December 1947, Page 8

NO MORE CASES IN AUCKLAND

ANOTHER PATIENT RECOVERS <P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. No increase in the number of positive cases of infantile paralysis in the Central Auckland health district was reported to-day. The number of positive cases remained at 32 to-night, and suspects had been reduced to 12, including three who were admitted during the day. Two former suspects found to be negative cases were discharged. Two patients, both of whom were proved to be positive cases, have now been discharged from the Auckland Hospital. A boy was sufficiently recovered to be allowed to go home at the week-end, and one of the adult patients who had made a good recovery was able to leave to-day.

NELSON SUSPECT PROVES NEGATIVE (P.A.) NELSON, December 9. The suspected infantile paralysis case in Nelson which was reported yesterday as the first in the South Island proved negative. The man who was admitted to hospital as a suspect has been discharged. ALL SWIMMING BATHS IN WELLINGTON CLOSED (PA) WELLINGTON, December 9. As a further precaution against the spread of infantile paralysis, all public swimming baths in Wellington and the Hutt Valley are to be closed from to-morrow morning until further notice. Instructions to this effect were issued to-night by the district medical officer of health (Dr. Hubert Smith) Children had been excluded first from attending public gatherings, but as a number of contacts had been young adults it was felt that an extension of the control measures to higher age groups was warranted. No more positive cases were reported in the Wellington health district -o-day. The four positive cases are a seven-year-old child, and three adults aged 47, 27, and 25.

WAIROA AGRICULTURAL SHOW CANCELLED (P.A.) WAIROA, December 9. A special meeting of the Wairoa Agricultural and Pastoral Society decided to abandon the show scheduled for January 9 and 10. The decision was made because of the outbreak of infantile paralysis.