Whangarei Paralysis Patient Discharged

Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 3

Whangarei Paralysis Patient Discharged

The seven-year-old girl from Otahuhu who was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital on Christmas Day and found on December 31 to be suffering from infantile paralysis was discharged cn Wednesday and has returned to Otahuhu. She was kept in isolation for 14 days with paralysis of the face only, and when discharged was recovering rapidly. Whangarei is now free of any cases, no fresh suspects or positive cases having been reported this morning. Positive cases of infantile paralysis in Auckland increased by two yesterday.

Both were from the metropolitan area.

One of the patients a child, was ad-

mitted to the Auckland Hospital on Wednesday and the other, an adult, was a suspected case diagnosed as positive yesterday. The only admission to the hospital yesterday was a suspected case a child from the North Shore. Three cases were transfered to the Wilson Home yesterday, and one patient lias been discharged from hospital, leaving 52 positive and five suspect cases in the Auckland Hospital last: night. Since the outbreak began on November 15, 86 positive cases have occurred in the Auckland district WAIKATO, MANAWATU

Ten people who have been undergoing treatment at the Waikato Hospital for infantile paralysis have now been discharged.

Of the 24 positive cases reported in the district, only 14 remain in the hospital. A girl of 17 from Hamilton has been admitted for observation, bringing the number of suspected cases to live.

The boy aged 12 who was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital from Levin as a positive case of infantile paralysis died on Wednesday night, states a message from Palmerston North.

The medical officer of health at Palmerston North (Dr T. C. Lonie) stated yesterday that a postmortem examination disclosed that the cause of death was meningitis and not poliomyelitis. Thus the Horowhenua-Manawatu district has not yet had a positive case during the present outbreak. The number of positive cases in infantile paralysis reported since the outbreak in Auckland on November 15 has now reached 139. The totals to date for the various health districts are as follows:

Auckland, 86; Northland, 2; South Auckland, 24; Thames-Tauranga, 2; Gisborne, 1; Taranaki, 13; Wanganui, 3; Wellington. 6; Canterbury, 2. Total 139.

CHRISTCHURCH SUSPECTS Two suspected cases of infantile parlysis in the Christchuch Hospital, a five-year-old boy from Darfield and a 19-months’-old baby from Clarkville, Kaiapoi, were diagnosed as negative today No further suspects are reported.