INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Sir,—Poliomyelitis has appeared in Christchurch now and small wonder. Health regulations, as imposed in New Zealand to prevent the spread of the disease, appear to be ignored by North Islanders but rigidly enforced in the South Island. Within the last three weeks or so we have had cricketers from Auckland (the hotbed of the epidemic) playing in Christchurch, while coxswains from Christchurch were stopped from going to Timaru to the regatta. In “The Press’’ of Saturday appears the following:—“Twenty-nine students from Auckland University College recently finished a tramping tour of the South Island. This party arrived at Picton on Boxing Day,” etc. And now we have a young woman and a youth in Christchurch Hospital with poliomyelitis. This seems to be on a par with the mania for pasteurisation of milk to kill germs while thousands of germs are absorbed daily from butter and cheese.—Yours, etc., T M.S. January 10, 1948. >
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25389, 12 January 1948, Page 9
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