EXTREME STEPS TO DEAL WITH PARALYSIS
[Per Press Association. Copyright J INVERCARGILL, This Day.
Extreme steps have been taken to deal with the infantile paralysis epidemic, said the Minister of Health, the Hon. Peter Fraser, in an address at the opening of the new public hospital yesterday. They had, however, been very necessary;
“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 or 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 a tribute to the doctors and nurses, who have played such a prominent part in fighting the epidemic.”
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Northern Advocate, 22 March 1937, Page 5
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