INFANTILE PARALYSIS
CANTERBURY CASES. '[PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 17. Three positive bases of infantile z paralysis were reported in the Canterbury health district to-day by the district officer in charge of the department, Dr. T. Fletcher Telford. The victim in each case is a boy—a Timaru child aged four years, a boy of five years living at Ohape. Temuka, and a Christchurch boy, aged 16, living at Linwood. These notifications interrupt a period of comparative immunity from the disease. No case had been reported in Christchurch for two weeks, and in South Canterbury during that time there had been only one or two notifications. Dr. Telford said that the further cases showed that the public was not yet entitled to regard risk of infection as absolutely past. While no one would suggest the need for the maintenance of close restrictions, the public should take all reasonable precautions.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 5
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