INFANTILE PARALYSIS
; . (*l[ T*L*S,? Al''-~?? IS* '"'ocuTiou.) .■,-■"■■ ! ' ■.■' '.'' '■■ ■'''"■ ;'''^PIEK,- r'2nd''January^/ of the children of; a family from: Wellington. on holiday in Napier died | in- a: private '.hospital>' frcni> infantile paralysis.^ 'Another "child "oflhe same family is under observatiop. '
December\seven, cases of infantile paralysis were notified-in the Auckland- health district.': These were reported- between 13 and'^ih'-December, and a11.,.0f them ■were-located;,in "the city area ;ahd;in the suburbs.-Prior: to December only, two acses »were notified during the- year,: -both' in June—one in the city and the 'other in the-suburbs. "If preceaent"is',td,be considered, th« Auckland 'district will- very, likely se3 another, epidemic \of infantile paralysis '* said;, DivvT. J. Hughes,:, Chief i-HeallS Officer for,-,the, Auckland digtrict, to :ai representative of the "New Zealand Herald.",: "The: epidemic of 1916 commenced. witk'a few"casesrin December, and it spread•. during- January, v February,, and ■ March./, 1..d0 -not" iirant to be an alarmist, but. if infantile:paralysis ia going;. to spread, the-worst-months' ar« yet" to come.." ,;..„• • , --■ ■:•;...:'" -.-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIV, Issue 2, 3 January 1925, Page 3
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154INFANTILE PARALYSIS Evening Post, Volume CVIV, Issue 2, 3 January 1925, Page 3
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