PARALYSIS PATIENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1937, Page 7

PARALYSIS PATIENTS

WELLINGTON REPORT

THREE MORE CASES

[PER press association.]

WELLINGTON. April 16

Three positive cases of infantile paralysis were admitted to the Wellington Hospital to-day from the Wellington health district. One is a boy of six from Paraparaumu, another is aged 12, from Ngaio, and the third is a boy aged seven, from Miramar. Another case, a. boy aged 16, from Brooklyn, was found to be negative. A boy of four years, admitted on Thursday, has been diagnosed as positive without paralysis. The other suspect admitted on Thursday, a boy of six years from Miramar, proved to be negative.

WAIPUKURAU DEATH

WAIRARAPA, April 16.

A boy, aged ten years, died of infantile paralysis in the Public Hospital here early this morning. He was admitted from Ongaonga on Wednesday as a suspect. Later he developed paralysis. The other case here, that of a. boy from Porangahau, is progressing favourably.-

WAIRARAPA

MASTERTON, April 16

Two further suspected cases of infantile paralysis were admitted to Masterton Hospital to-day. One was a boy of seven months, from Greytown. The other was a. boy of two years, from Featherston. This makes a total of eight cases, six being from Greytown. Only two, however, have yet been diagnosed as positive. All the cases are children.

POVERTY BAY

GISBORNE, April 16

Two cases of infantile paralysis were reported in the East Cape health district to-day. One was at Tewhaiti, and was admitted to Rotorua Hospital. The other was a fourteen-year-old girl in the borough of Gisborne. The latter Avas admitted to Cook Hospital as a mild case.

There have now been eighteen notifications in the East Cape health district. The Education Board has closed all the schools in Wairoa district north of Nuhaka.

WAIKATO SCHOOLS RE-OPEN.

HAMILTON, April 16.

The third case of infantile paralysis from Arapuni was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. It was a boy of eight months. A Maori girl, aged live years, was taken to hospital on Wednesday for observation and was found to be a positive case. This occurred just after the Arapuni School opened and when the district was considered to be free. The school was closed again. It has been decided to re-open the Matamata High School and primary school, which closed on Monday because of the epidemic at Te Poi. However, children from Te Poi will not be allowed to attend the school until 14 days after the last case is reported there. Teaching will recommence in both schools on Monday.