CHILD PARALYSIS
Epidemic In New South Wales GOVERNMENT MEASURES (Received February 3, 12.5 p.m.) Sydney, February 2. ft was officially stated to-night that infantile paralysis in New South Wales has now assumed epidemic proportions, and the Government is taking all the necessary measures to deal with it, securing an adequate supply of respirators for city and country and providing an aerial ambulance. The number of cases in the first two days this month was 34, including 25 to-day, due, according to high medical authority, to children mingling in the great crowds of the past week.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 110, 3 February 1938, Page 15
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95CHILD PARALYSIS Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 110, 3 February 1938, Page 15
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