CASES AT DUNEDIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 14

CASES AT DUNEDIN

NEARLY FIFTY PATIENTS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, December 20.

A further six patients were admitted to Dunedin Hospital today as a result of the infantile paralysis outbreak. One boy and one girl are probably paralysed, two girls and one boy are positive cases, and one girl is for observation.

Though there is a good deal of infection about, it was reported by Dr. T. McKibbin, district medical officer of health, on Saturday, that there has been a slight decrease in the number oi cases first thought to be definitely paralysed as a result of the disease. It was not desired to create a false impression in the minds of the public, said Dr. McKibbin. There were actually more than 40 children (Sunday's admissions making nearly 50) in the Dunedin Hospital, this number including those sent in from outside, and an occasional case sent from another ward in the hospital.- Of that number, there was severe paralysis in only a small proportion of the cases. Four or five of the patients were heavily paralysed, and there was a group of about 18 with varying paralysis of ''a milder type, the remainder of the children being under observation.

Details of admissions to the Dunedin Hospital for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. on Saturday are: Positive cases, one girl and two boys; doubtful case for observation, one girl from Green Island.