Paralysis Suspect a Positive Case

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 68, 22 March 1937, Page 6

Paralysis Suspect a Positive Case

TAONUI SCHOOL CLOSED. There are now four cases of infantile paralysis in hospital in Palmerston North, the boy 13 years of ago ad mitted from Aorangi on Friday proving a positive case. As a result the Taonui School has been closed as a precautionary measure though the lad was not attending there but working on a nearby farm. BETTER LOSE SCHOOLING THAN BE MAIMED TOR LIFE. MINISTER ON EPIDEMIC RESTRICTIONS. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. “Extreme steps have been taken to deal with the infantile paralysis epidemic," said the Minister of Health (Hon. P. Fraser) in au address at the opening of the new public hospital yesterday. “They have, however, been very necessary steps. “The children have to be safeguarded at all costs," he said. “It would be better for them to lose a whole year's schooling than that there should be any risk of their contracting a disease which would leave them maimed and crippled for life. Parents in Otago and Southland have given admirable co operation in the measures taken by the Government to prevent the spread of the disease and I must also pay tribute to the doctors and nurses who played such a prominent part in fighting the epidemic.'' MORMON HUT PROHIBITED BY MINISTER Per Pi ess Association. WAIROA, March 20. Advice has 5 been received by the Health Inspector at Wairoa that the Mormon liui, which was to have been held at Nuhaka at Easter, and which was to have been attended by something like 2000 Mapris, lias been prohibited by the Minister Health. This action has been taken to prevent an outbreak of infantile paralysis in the district.