INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 4

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

NO CAUSE FOR ANXIETY

“You • may say. the -Dominion is ■practically i free from infantile paralysis. ■ One or two isolated cases are bound to Occur,Tint' therb is-no danger of a' recrudescence of last year’s epidemic,” said Dr. Telford, 1 Canterbury Health officer, when asked if the reported outbreak in 'Sydney and Melbourne was likely to spread t,o New Zealand. .

Dr. Telford pointed out that after last year’s epidemic very few children susceptible to the disease "had not suffered from it, and thus there were few left who were ‘ likely become afflicted. It was not likely that there would be another epidemic fo r at least, four years. ■ .