28 NEW CASES
INFANTILE PARALYSIS Melbourne’s Total Over 100 (Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l (Received August 16, at 11.15. p.m.) MELBOURNE. August 16. Twenty-eight cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Melbourne since Thursday. 'These bring the total to 101 cases. No more deaths have occurred. A feature of the developments in the epidemic was the discovery at the week-end of a colony of contacts at Mount Macedon, a • fashionable holiday resort, forty miles from the city. Three cases occurred at a school there, and it has now been closed. Strict precautions are being taken at Mount Macedon, where the roads are now being patrolled by Council employees. Motorists are questioned and advised to return to the city. The known contacts have been strictly isolated.
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Grey River Argus, 17 August 1937, Page 5
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