ON THE WANE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1937, Page 5

ON THE WANE.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC. SUSPECT YESTERDAY FROM ASHHURST PALMERSTON N., This Day. The admission to hospital yesterday of a boy,. 10 years of age, from- Ashhurst, as an infantile paralysis suspect, brought.to'a sudden end the congratulations which the district was receiving in. -having experienced a whole week with no signs of-fresih cases. It is still, confidently hoped, however, that the disease is on the wane. The Aslhhurst school will be closed as from to-day us a result of this case. The first case was. admitted on March 1.5, being from Bainesse, and the totaJ number of positive cases in. the Palmerston North Hospital is now 19, the places from which they have come being as follow: — Bainesse ..... .. ~.. 2 Kauwhata ..-. 1 Aorangi .... .. .. : ... .... ,1 * Colyton ... ..... .., -2 Sanson . . ...... .. ~/ I Kimbolton Road .... ... .1 Palmerston North .. .... 4 .....'. Feilding .... . .2 Foxton 1 Ohau .. .'.' .. .'.'.'. .". ... 1 Levin . :..... .-. 2 Shannon .......'..... 1 Total .... . . . . • ... KSS ;. .'. 19, YOUNG MAN ADMITTED TO GREYMOUTH HOSPITAL GEEYMOTJTH, Last Night. A further case of infantile paralysis a single man aged 27, was admitted to the Greymoutih Hospital "this evening. The patient has moderately severe paralysis in the right arm. ANOTHER MASTERTON CASE MASTERTON, Last Night. A girl of 4£ years from Masterton was admitted to the hospital on Saturday as a suspected 'case of infantile paralysis. This is the first case in the district for a week. There as now 11 children in hospital, seven having been diagnosed as positive cases. BOY DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL WAIPUKURAU, April 24. three-year-old boy admitted to theWaipukurau Hospital from Porangahau on March 20, suffering with slight paralysis of the arm, was discharged from the institution to-day. The other case, a Waipukurau girl, aged, seven, is progressing satisfactorily. There have been no further admissions and no cases have been reported throughout the district. -FIRST DEATH IN WAIKATO. HAMILTON, This Day. The first death from infantile paralysis in the district occurred at the Waikato Hospital this morning when a Hindu boy, aged two, succumbed. He was admitted from Tewhaiti, East Coast, sixteen days aao.