POLIOMYELITIS CLINICS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 20

POLIOMYELITIS CLINICS

Campaign Plans Oral Poliomyelitis vaccine from Canada for adults in Canterbury arrived at the Christchurch airport by the first plane from Wellington yesterday morning and was put straight into the freezing chamber by the Christchurch office of the Health Department. Today, supplies of the vaccine will be distributed to country depots in readiness for the start next week of the immunisation campaign. The detailed programme for the campaign will be given in an advertisement in tomorrow’s issue of “The Press." In the Christchurch area, the first three days of the campaign will be devoted to the inner city districts, and Thursday and Friday to the New Brighton area. Clinics will be held in other parts of the city and surrounding region during the next fortnight. Fourteen special clinics will be held in the inner city during the three-day campaign, in addition to six other clinics of longer duration. Week-long clinics will be held next week at the Christchurch health office and the post Office motor registration branch, both 'in Hereford street, and at the St. John Ambulance Association hall in Peterborough street. Clinics open for at least a fortnight will start on Monday in the Christchurch Transport Board's waiting-room in Cathedral square and at the Christchurch Railway Station A clinic at the Health Department’s mass X-ray rooms in Manchester street will operate for four weeks as from Monday. Most of the long-term clinics will be open from 9 a.m to 5.30 p.m., Monday to Thursday. and 9 a m. to 9 p.m., on Fridays; the X-ray rooms, however, will stay open each day to 7 p.m. and to 9 p.m on Fridays.