NAPIER WARNING
WIDE POWERS GIVEN POSSIBLE EMERGENCY (P.A.) NAPIER, Dec. 16. A man aged 22 admitted to the Napier Public Hospital yesterday as a suspect has proved to be free of infantile paralysis. The medical superintendent, £>r. J. J. Foley, however, told the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board members that the hot. sultry conditions of the Hawke’s Bay summer, favoured the spread of the virus and he gave a warning that if infantile paralysis came to Hawke’s Bay the outbreak might assume large proportions. He was given wide powers to deal with the emergency, including the closing of all institutions to visitors if necessary.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 8
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103NAPIER WARNING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 8
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