HIGHER INCIDENCE OF PARALYSIS WHEN SCHOOLS CLOSED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. I No fresh poliomyelitis cases were i reported during the week-end nor ! today. This is the second week-end since July 4 that no cases have been reported. | Weekly figures taken by the Health j Department over the period during ! which the schools were closed show ; a higher incidence of infection than ■since the schools resumed. This is ' attributed to lack of control, the children, the department stated, being free to mingle indiscriminately with one another and with those over school age.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 6
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