INFANTILE PARALYSIS
CLOSING OF WELLINGTON SCHOOLS POSITION HOT REGARDED AS SERIOUS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 12. The school-closing order affects the city and Johnsonville oinly. Dr Watt,- Director-General of Health, said that the position is not regarded as serious, but there were indications of a spreading of infection. The schools were closing as a precautionary measure. The cases reported in the Wellington district were comparatively mild, and only a small proportion had any degree of paralysis. The closing of the schools involved the prohibition of children under 16 from attending pictures, and the closing of Sunday schools and the dental clinic. Infantile paralysis was essentially a disease in a younger age group, and therefore it had been decided in the meantime that the post-primary schools should not be closed. Two girls, aged 10 and 11 years, one from Ngaio and one from Berhampore, were sent to hospital to-da^
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Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 11
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150INFANTILE PARALYSIS Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 11
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