PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 12

PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC

FIRST NAPIER CASE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NAPIER, This Day.

The first! case of infantile paralysis in Napier was reported yesterday, the patient being a boy aged two years. On the instructions of the Health Department the Napier Competitions Society's Easter festival has been postponed until a later date. . HASTINGS, This Day. _ Another case of infantile paralysis was reported to the health authorities in Hastings yesterday, making a total of nine for the town and. .district. The latest, victim' is a three-year-old girl and a contact of one of the cases reported earlier in the week. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Three cases of infantile paralysis, including one in Christchurch, were reported today to the district medical officer of health for Canterbury and Westland. The city case is a girl aged five living at Linwood. No paralysis is evident. The other cases were reported from Waitawa, near Pleasant Point, and from Greymouth, the sufferers being boys of nine and eight years respectively. Schools attended by the last-named patients have been closed until after the Easter holidays, and the class at the school attended by the Christchurch victim has been dispersed for a similar period. DUNEDIN, This Day. A positive case of infantile paralysis, a boy aged eight years, has been admitted to the Balclutha Hospital from Warepi.