DOCTOR CATCHES POLIOMYELITIS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 5. A resident doctor on the staff of the Auckland Hospital who was formerly in charge of infantile paralysis patients contracted the disease himself. This was repoited to the Auckland Hospital Board when it Was stated that after a positive diagnosis the doctor had received physiotherapy treatment and nad now been discharged from hospital. The doctor was in charge of infantile paralysis wards for three months at the end of last year. Early in January he suffered a throat affection and received out-patient treatment until February'2l, when he Was admitted to a ward for a period of nine days. He developed pain and disability in his shoulder, and on March 15 when he was again examined after a period of physiotherapy treatment, a specialist considered there was no doubt that he had suffered an attack of infantile paralysi s.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1948, Page 3
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