INFANTILE PARALYSIS
CLOSING OF SChIoOLS
Owing to "a case of infantile paralysis being reported from Shannon, the Wellington-Education Boaril, acting on the advice of the Health Department, has directed,, that the Shannon School shall be closed forthwith and that secondary: school pupils frorn^Shanrion who are > attending the Levin District High School shall be excluded as from today. The date of the reopening, of the Shannon School will beiidetermined later.■■.;■ '- ; :: ■■: 7 ...';. V' .-'.• '..'■ V ;
(By Telegraph—Press Asscxaation.). • ••.;■. ; ;../:".;: :v- >O NAPIER; TJhis Day. '-.I , All, Napier schools, will be closed until-.'April 5-in order to erevent the, spreading of infantile pan (lysis.; No actual cases have yet occur red< injthe city but." almost: a dozen -^lave been reported; from -nearby" country-dis-tricts. -.. .''.' -.';■■..:•.-■-.■ .- " ■'-; I'■.: / :.; ■' . ■'■: -.- 'CHRISTCHURCH, -Tfcis Day. ' A further case ;of, infantile (paralysis; in the-city.a-girl aged five*/was noti-fied-today. A- case of a boyi aged nine was also notified from Pleasant Point, near Timaru. . ; ■ ';."..' -. ' . PALMERSTON N., ijhisDay. The fifth case of infantile -paralysis in the palmerston Hospital'? district, a young Maori child from Shjannon, has been :'diagnosed . as. positive-1!1 but .mild. The patient is ; in hospital, r.'.■• .'■■ ■■;.'■-' ; GrREYMOUTH, Tiiis : Day. . A boy of eight years was admitted to thei'Grey' Hospital this -morning as 'a positive case of infantile! paralysis. He has.slight paralysis' of!.the:. left leg. :- •'.■'' ■■■'■' :■' ... .- .. ■ '.:... ■'. Schools-in the Greymoutli . district [closed today. "'■:. ■ . ;.- , ..'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 11
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214INFANTILE PARALYSIS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 11
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