INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1937, Page 2

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

WOODSTOCK BOY. [per press association.] HOKITIKA, April 16. A suspected case of infantile paralysis, a. boy of two years, with parents residing at Woodstock, was admitted to Westland Hospital yesterday.' His condition is not. very serious. MARLBOROUGH’S FIRST CASE. BLENHEIM, April 16. The first paralysis case in Marlborough was admitted to hospital yesterday afternoon, a young - man, aged 22, from the suburb of Springlands. He had returned 24 hours previously from holidays at Christchurch. It is a positive case. CANTERBURY. CHRISTCHURCH, April 15. The first case of infantile paralysis in the city area of Christchurch for a week was reported to the Medical Officer for Canterbury and Westland, Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, to-day. The victim is a girl of 18 years. The only other case notified yesterday in the Canterbury and Westland health district, was that of a girl aged 13 at Glen-iti, three miles west'of Timaru. FEILDING. I PALMERSTON N., April 15. A boy, aged 13, was admitted to hospital from Feilding with a mild form of infantile paralysis of the face. GISBORNE GISBORNE, April 16. In view of the paralysis epidemic, the Returned Soldiers ’ Association, decided last, evening to abandon the plans for the usual Anzac Day parade and service, and to sponsor no assemblies of the public, until the epidemic shows definite signs of abatement. FROM REMOTE PA. TAUMARUNUI, April 15. A Maori boy, aged 17 months, was admitted to the Taumarunui Hospital from a remote pa at the back of Lake Taupo, and was- diagnosed as suffering' from infantile paralysis. Some paralysis affects one leg. WAIRARAPA. MASTERTON, April 15. -Four further suspected cases of infantile paralysis were admitted to the\ Mastertoil Hospital to-day from Greytown. In addition, a boy, aged 13, from Greytown was admitted as a suspect on Wednesday night. Those admitted to-day are all children. The Greytown School has closed, and steps have been taken to erect a 16-bed emergency isolation ward at the Masterton Hospital. i AUCKLANDERS’ GIFT AUCKLAND, April 15. A ceremony which will mean much in the future of the lives of many thousands of crippled children, was held in the Mayor’s Room, at the Town Hall, when Mr. W. R. Wilson signed a deed which will eventually place under the control of the Auckland Hospital Board, his beautiful home “St. Leonard’s,’’ at. Takapuna, which lie and Mrs. Wilson are presenting to the people as a home for the care of the crippled children of the Auckland province. With this deed will go a cheque for over £25,000, which has been collected by the Crippled Children’s Society, and will be held in trust by the Board on behalf of crippled children. The Mayor, Mr. -Ernest Davis, asked that he be given the privilege of having a plate made and erected recording the grateful appreciation of the community at the generous action of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. The Hospital Board Chairman said his Board would be pleased to accept Mr. Davis’s offer.