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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 2, 28 September 1937, Page 11

During the week ended yesterday two cases of infantile paralysis were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department from the NelsonMarlborough district. The patients are children in the same family, but their condition is not serious. For the week, 40 cases of infectious disease and six deaths —five from tuberculosis and one from erysipelas—were notified in. the Wellington district. In the WanganuiElorowhenua district two cases of tuberculosis atid one each of scarlet fever, paratyphoid, erysipelas and hydatids were reported; in WairarapaHawke’s Bay, four cases of diphtheria, one of tuberculosis and one of pneumonic influenza; in central Wellington, seven cases of diphtheria, six of tuberculosis, foitr of scarlet fever and one each of typhoid fever, septic abortion and hydatids; and in Ne’sonMarlborough, four cases of scarlet fever, two of poliomyelitis, one of tuberculosis and one of erysipelas.

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