; No More Paralysis i | Coses In Northland
r No further suspected or positive . cases of infantile paralysis occurred 3 in Northland over the week-end, act cording to the medical officer of heaith for the area (Dr J. L. Newman). The boy patient at the Bay of Islands Hospital, it is hoped, will be 1 discharged in the nc»ir future. ) CASES IN SOUTH Four further positive cases of infan- • tile paralysis were reported in the > Auckland Province during the weekend. One was in the Auckland health : district and the remaining three oe- ’ curred in South Auckland. A five-year-old girl from Wellsford ! who was already a patient in the : Auckland Hospital, was diagnosed as '■ a positive case on Saturday. Paralysis patients now under treatment in • the hospital are 42 positive cases and 1 three suspected cases. 1 A boy aged 10 was admitted to the Waikato Hospital on Saturday from Ngaruawahia as a positive case, and a girl aged 10 who was already in the hospital as a suspected case was transferred to the positive list' during the week-end. The Rotorua district’s third positive case was admitted to the Rotorua Hospital on Saturday, the patient being a girl aged 4 from Murapara.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1948, Page 2
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