INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Evening Star, Issue 18884, 7 March 1925, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

STILL A FIRM GRIP FIRST BATCH OF THE CURED (Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, March 6. No slackening in tho grip which infantile paralysis W on the community Is discernible. Rather would_ it seem that the epidemic is deepening its hold. Nino fiesh cases have been notified in the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day. For all cases of infantile paralysis six weeks' isolation is prescribed. This morning six children who have fulfilled this requirement, and who show no paralysis or muscular weakness, were discharged from the Christchurch Hospital. They are tho first batch to leave hospital as cured since. the epidemic began to sweep over the ditsrict. The third son of Mr Bernard Wood, aged two and a-half years, now in the hospital, is progressing favorably.

TEACHING THE CHILDREN PRESS TO BE USED. The newspapers are the medium through which the Canterbury Education Board intends to bring knowledge to tho doors of young folk attending the Canter-. bury schools so long as the schools remain closed. The scheme is one whereby the assignment! of tho work for tho children is to bo published from week to week in the newspapers. A committee of head- masters has been at work drawing up suitable questions, and the first set will be published-in tho Christchurch newspapers to-morrow. Having completed their work, the pupils will post it to their respective schools, where it will be marked by the teachers. 11 I think that those parents who are at all interested in the welfare of their youngsters will be only too_ pleased to see that they do the work, if it only to keep them quiet in the evenings,” said Mr Kirk (secretary of the (. snterlmry Education Board). "The work wiR net. he strenuous,” lie continued,^ 11 and it is tho board’s intention that it should keep pupils engaged for no more than a couple of hours each day. The scheme will apply from Standards I. to VI. The secondary schools aro working under an independent scheme of work which is being sent out to pupils by post and returned for marking through the same medium. LOCAL MEASURES. It is highly probable that a course of tuition for scholars who are debarred from attending school while the present regulations are in force will be instituted _in Dunedin. The Head Masters Association has already met and discussed tho matter, and will meet again on Monday to fix details. The method to be adopted here wil no doubt bs on the lines of that adopted by the Canterbury Education Board. The committee of the Anderson Bay School has issued tho following circular to parents of children attending tiio school:—"As the school has been so long closed owing to this unfortunate epidemic, we think that both the parents and pupils will welcome this small scheme of home lessons that will he of advantage to pupils and fit in with their school work. It has been so arranged as to require ktle or no correcting on the part of parents, but pupils should bring what they have done to school when it is re-opened to show their teachers. Tests will bo made during the first week of reopening on tins work.” The scheme is posted, so ary risk of infection is avoided. It is made out weekly for Standards 111., IV,, V., and VI., the lower classes requiring too much individual work to be included. The hsi of text hooks required for the new c.assets is included in each scheme.