HOLIOMYELITIS IN NEW ZEALAND
POSIBILITY OF MINOR QITBREAK IN SUMMER (eta Zealand. Press Association.; AUCKLAND. September 30. Dr,A. W. S. Thompson, the Medical ocer of Health at Auckland, who accuitely forecast the end of the poliqyelitis epidemic in June, made a futher cautious prophecy to-day. . “Tire may be a minor outbreak j this Kmmer. The emphasis is on the I wordmay.’ ” he said. \ Evt if there was a small rccrudes- ' cencaas had happened in Britain and clse\4cre, he did not think it would amoilt to much. Drfirhompson considers the risk of infec on so small that it can be ignore! with reasonable safety by those who cish to bathe in the harbour. The jbjection to swimming in polluted waters, however, is not solely oecaus< >f poliomyelitis. There are otner possi lities of infection.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25923, 1 October 1949, Page 2
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