INFANTILE PARALYSIS
CASES IN VICTORIA. * AUCKLAND, May 2. ' Although the infantile paralysis epi- ? demic in Victoria Iras subsided, there are hundreds of patients at the vari■7 ous hospitals receiving after care treatment, said Mr. H. Barrett, Man-ager-Secretary of the Melbourne Children’s Hospital, a through passenger on the Mariposa to San Francisco, on an official world tour to gather informa- / tion in respect to children’s hospitals, as a. preliminary to building a new
children’s hospital in Melbourne. “We had 2100 cases in Victoria during the epidemic,” said Mr. Barrett. “The epidemic was a new experience* to the. hospitals. Many patients contracted paralysis in the respiratory regions, and we had to obtain thirty, respirators, constructed on the iron lung principle. At times, all were in use.” He added that millions of pounds had been spent throughout the world on research, but no definite conclusions as to the origin had been reached. “It is definitely known that it is a bug. In the treatment, Victoria has done everything attempted by other countries.” ■ •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1938, Page 2
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