INFANTILE PARALYSIS
THE AUCKLAND EPIDEMIC. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 29. The total number of cases of infantile paralysis to date is 300. The municipal and health authorities have resolved to institute a sanitary campaign of the city. CLEAR CASE IN CHRISTCHURCH. [Per United Press Assccivtiom.s CHRISTCHURCH, February 29. The case of infantile paralysis here has. been definitely diagnosed as snob. Every) precaution to proVeub the spread of th% disease is being taken by the authorities. 1 Special to thb * Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, February 29. There is no change in the condition of. the infantile paralysis patient. Dr Ches.) eon, District Health Officer, states that the case lias not been found to be coua nected directly with the outbreak in th 4 North Island. It appears to be a purely sporadic case. From time to time there have been isolated cases of infantile paralysis in Chi-istchurch, and he as ini dined to believe the present case is of that description. However, all possible precautions have been taken, and local bodies have been warned “to have tlieip back yards put in order.” As a precaution against the spread of, infantile paralysis the Timaru Borough Council recommended that all railway trains he thoroughly disinfected,
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Evening Star, Issue 16050, 29 February 1916, Page 4
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