INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1937, Page 5

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

CASE KROM PETONE.

[per press association.]

WELLINGTON, June 20

A boy, aged two years and a half, from Petone, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital on Saturday afternoon as a positive case, of infantile paralysis. The patient is slightly paralysed.

DUMPS AND DISEASE

CHRISTCHURCH,, June 20.

Assertions that rubbish dumps belonging to the Dunedin Borough Council gave rise to the infantile paralysis epidemic were freely made among Opawa residents at. a meeting held to discuss the City Council’s rubbish dumping proposals at the Opawa School last evening. They were answered by Dr. J. Guthrie, a city councillor, who said that there was no evidence to warrant, the allegation. Never in the world’s history, he said, had an outbreak of infantile paralysis been traced to any cause.

"(RON LUNG” PATIENT

SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 20.

Frederick Suite, the millionaire’s son, aged 26, who is suffering from infantile paralysis, has arrived hero from China, after being for 447 days inside of a respirator, or his so-called "iron lung.” Longshoremen, wearing sterilised gowns, removed the heavy respirator from the shin, and placed it in a special railway car, wheih had been elaborately fitted up as a hospital, for atrip to Chicago.

Snito is returning home for treatment. The cost of the journey from Pekin to Chicago is estimated at 150,000 dollars. Suite’s father is a wealthy loan company president.