TEN CASES

Northern Advocate, 7 February 1925, Page 5

TEN CASES

IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. TOLL OF THE EPIDEMIC. AUCKLAND TOTAL OVER 100. AUCKLAND, This Day. Ten cases of infantile paralysis ■wore reported for ilue 24 hours ending at noon today. The victims included a man of 30 years and young women of 19 and 24 years. The total for "the Auckland health district for the year is now 107.—Press Assn. IMPORTANT MEASURES. EARLY DETECTION. NOTIFICATION OF EVERY CASE. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Council of the British Medical Association and the Director-General of Health have jointly promulgated in •eurcular form to all medical practitioners in the dominion a summary of recent literature 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 'tire effect of increasing the number of such notifications, but the step was deemed advisable as an additional safeguard and a cheek to the spread of the disease. The public are advised of this it order to allay any unnecessary alarm wliich. may be created when the daily totals are thus swelled, for the apparent increase thus engendered bears no relation to the true morbidity and fatality of the epidemic, which fortunately by one moans and another is being kept comparatively low in 'the areas affected.—Press Assn.

CANTERBURY SUSPECTS. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Six new infantile paralysis suspects -were reported for the 24 hours ending noon today, five being in the city and one lit Timaru. All are children. Two of the suspects are from one family.—Press Assn.