INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 10

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

DEATH AT DUNEDIN ONLY ONE NEW CASE | (By TeleuraDli— Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The death occurrcd last evening of the boy of 12, a resident of Anderson's Bay, who was reported on Saturday to be suffering from respiratory paralysis. He had been holidaying at Warrington and was being treated privately at his home. This was the only infantile paralysis case notified in the Dunedin district for a week. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN This Day. A positive case of infantile paralysis, a boy aged 14 from Luggate was admitted to hospital at Clyde yesterday. NEGATIVE DIAGNOSIS The woman of forty from Miramar who was admitted to the Wellington Public Hospital on Saturday for observation as. a suspected case of infantile paralysis has been proved negative. This leaves Wellington with only one positive case in hospital. (By Telegraph—Pies? Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 24. No further cases of infantile paralysis were reported during the weekend. Two suspected cases were admitted to hospital, but in each case the diagnosis was negative. Only four cases in all have occurred here, three being from the city area and one from Belfast. The condition of all the patients is satisfactory. FATAL CASE AT OAMARU (By Telegraph—Press Association.) OAMARU, This Day. The youth, aged 19, admitted to the Oamaru Hospital from Kauru Hill last Thursday with infantile paralysis, died last evening. FREE FROM DISEASE (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Advice received from the Wellington health authorities states that the case of the boy of six admitted to the Picton Hospital as a suspected sufferer from infantile paralysis has been diagnosed as negative. Consequently the quarantine restrictions on the boy's family and others having contact with him have been removed.