INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 156, 30 March 1937, Page 10

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Quarantine Restrictions Lifted at Apia By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, March 29. For tlie first time- since November the Matua, which returned to Auckland to-day after a round trip to the Islands, was able to land passengers at Apia, the quarantine restrictions due to infantile paralysis having beeu lifted. Sixteen passengers, mainly residents of Samoa, landed and five excursionists went ashore. Dr. C. M. Dawson, an Apia medical practitioner, who is on a holiday visit to New Zealand, expressed the opinion that the restrictions at Samoa had been unnecessary owing to the considerable distance from New Zealand. He said that infantile paralysis was not unknown among the natives, one case having occurred at Samoa prior to the enforcement of the restrictions. CASE FROM CAPE RUNAWAY By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, March 29. The third ease of infantile paralysis in the East Cape health district is reported from Cape Runaway, the patient being a Maori girl, aged 21 years, who is now in hospital at Opotiki with considerable paralysis. FIVE NEW CANTERBURY CASES By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, March 29. Five further cases of infantile partilysis were reported to-day. Three were notified from Timaru, one from tlie city, and one from New Brighton. The Timaru cases include a mother and son. The woman is 28 years of age and the boy six years. The third case is that of a girl aged I I. The case front New Brighton is a girl aged two. and the city case is a boy aged eight.

MILD OAMARU CASE By Telegraph—Press Association. Oatnarti, March 29. A man, aged 25, was admitted to hospital on Thursday, and his case has been diagnosed as a mild positive one of infantile paralysis. The man resides at Weston. It is about a fortnight since the last case.