THE EPIDEMIC

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 February 1925, Page 5

THE EPIDEMIC

IN SOUTH TARANAKI. NO FURTHER OASES. POSITION ELSEWHERE. No further eases of infantile paralysis have been reported in South Taranaki, and apart from the native child who died at Pa tea on Wednesday, - there only remains the one ease of the boy of nine years, who is still under treatment at the Hawera Hospital. LAST NIGHT’S REPORTS. (.11Y TELEGRAPH —rPRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Feb. G. Sevencases of infanede/paralysis were reported to-day. No deaths occurred. MASTERTON, Feb. G. An infant patient from the borough was admitted to hospital to-day suffering from infantile paralysis. This makes a total of twenty-three since the outbreak, twelve being from the borough and eleven from the Wairrrapa district DUNEDIN, Feb. 6. Tile district health officer stated today that in connection with the suspected case of infantile paralysis in tlie city, it has been definitely proved that the patient is not suffering from that disease, ’flie position otherwise remains unchanged.

CIRCULAR TO MEDICAL MEN

MILD CASES TO BE NOTIFIED

WELLINGTON, Feb. 6

The council of the British Medical Association and. the Director-General of Health have jointly promulgated in circular form to all medical practitioners in the. Dominion a summary of recentliterature concerning the symptomatology and diagnosis of infantile paralysis. The importance of early detection and notification of mild and abortive cases of this disease has thus been emphasised. Doubtless this will have the effect of increasing the number of such notifications, but the. step was deemed advisable i as an additional safeguard. and check to the spread of the disease.

The public are advised of this in order to allav any unnecessary alarm which may be created when the daily totals are thus swelled, for the apparent increase thus engendered bears no le a_ tion to thp true .morbidity and fatality of'the epidemic, which fortunately, by one means and another, is being kept comparatively low in the areas affect- ’ V ■■