INFANTILE PARALYSIS
SIXTH CASE REPORTED. Diagnosed as positive, another case of infantile paralysis was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital on Saturday evening. The patient is a youth aged 17, from Feilding. This is the sixth ease in hospital here, and all are reported to he progressing satisfactorily. EAST CAPE OUTBREAK. Per Press Association. GISBORNE. March 129. The third case of infantile paralysis in the East Cape health district is reported from Cape Runaway. the patient being a Maori girl of "21 years. She is now in hospital at Opotiki with considerable paralysis. Ihe othei cases in the district were the Int a I one at Mohaka and a girl from the railway camp at Bartlett’s. CASES IN NORTH. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. March 2S Three positive cases of infantile paralysis and three suspected eases from Paeroa district are under observation in the Thames Hospita . Every precaution is being tak . cn . the Department of Health, and Paeroa and Netlierton schools have been closed for a fortnight Hie cases is serious. (Medical Officer of Health at Auckland) said the situation belli close] v watched, although there was no suggestion of an epidemic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 29 March 1937, Page 7
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