DREADED SCOURGE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13125, 23 March 1937, Page 5

DREADED SCOURGE

INFANTILE PARALYSIS. MOHAKA MAORI DIES IN WAIROA. T}fe death occurred, in Wairoa hospital on Friday of a Maori man aged 30 from infantile paralysis. Tho victim was married. He was brought in from Mohaka a week previous as a suspect, and death occurred on Friday evening. As a precautionary measure the Health Department has closed the Mohaka and Raupunga Schools until further notice.

PRECAUTIONS IN SOUTHLAND

MINISTER’S TRIBUTE

CHILDREN MUST BE SAFEGUARDED AT ALT, COSTS

(Press Asociation) INVERCARGILL. March 22.

Extreme steps had been taken to deal with the infantile paralysis epidemic, said the Minister of Health, tho Hon. P. Fraser, in an address at tho opening of the new public, hospital on Saturday. They had, however, been very necessary steps. “The children have to be safeguarded a,ti all costs’’ be said. “ : It would be better for them to lose '» whole year of school ‘ than there should be .any risk of their con tracting the disease which might leave them maimed and crippled for life.

“Parents in Otago and Southland have given admirable co-opervbion in the measures taken by the Government to prevent the spread of the disease, and I must also pay a. tribute to the doctors and nurses who have played such a. prominent .part In fighting the epidemic.’’

POSITION IN CANTERBURYWEST COAST.

BOY DTES IN WESTPORT.

TWO FURTHER CASES AND TWO SUSPECTS.

(Press Assoenfion)

CHRISTCHURCH, March 22

Ono death, two positive! eases, and two suspected eases of infantile paralysis were reported in the Canter-bury-Wostland health district to-day. A boy aged two years died at Westport, while a married woman from St. Andrews has been admitted to tho WaimaLe Hospital, and a girl aged 16 years has been reported as a positive ease at Greymouth. The two suspects, .both at Runanga, are a youth aged 16 and a. boy aged seven vears respectively.

FOUR. CASES IN MAN A. WATT!

(Press Association)

PALMERSTON N., March 22

The suspected paralysis case, that of a hoy aged 13 years from Aorangi, who was admitted to the hospital on Friday, has been diagnosed as positive.

Thore are now four cases In the hospital. The Taonui School, near Aorangi, has been closed as a precaution. No cases have been in the city.

TWO MORE OASES IN HASTINGS

TOTAL OF 7 IN THREE WEEKS

(Press Associationi HASTINGS, March 22. Two further case 3of infantile paralysis wore reported during the week-end to the health authorities in Hastings. Both cases were definitely positive. One of the latest victims is a six-year-old boy, and the other is a two-year-old girl. Both are living in Hastings. There have now been .seven cases reported in Hastings and surrounding districts since the-first case was reported three weeks ago.

POSITIVE CASE AT ; PORANGAHAU. THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY. (Press Association) WAIPUKURAU, March 22. A Porungabau boy, aged three years, has contracted infantile paralysis. He has been under observation for some days and was' certified as a positive case to-day. One arm is paralysed, but it is understood that the ease is not serious. There are no further eases or suspected cases in the hospital.