INFANTILE PARALYSIS MAY BE A RECDRRENCE NEXT YEAR.
(BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) v CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Hospital Board, lsi\ Fenwick presented a report on infantile paralysis, stating that the disease had been in mild form. There have been two recoveries, the first recorded. Dr. Valintine said that 40 cases had occuried in Dunedin and 30 in Christchurch, and reports from Taranaki suggested that the epidemic was there. A peculiar fact was that the disease attacked ma4iy adults, but a good feature was the recoveries- Dr. Fenwick urged that the spread of the disease to the North Island suggested the probability of another epidemic next autumn
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 8
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107INFANTILE PARALYSIS MAY BE A RECDRRENCE NEXT YEAR. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 8
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