Many Kamo School Children Absent

Northern Advocate, 27 November 1948, Page 7

Many Kamo School Children Absent

During the past week an average ox 84 children out of a roll number of 161 j had been absent from the Kamo school as a result of the two recent cases of poliomyelitis, the headmaster (Mr C. Tills) stated today. He said he was not aware of any intention to close the school. Neither of the two children who had contracted the disease recently was a pupil of the Ngararatunua school, said the teacher (Mrs V. Donaldson) this morning. No children had been absent from school except some who were connected with the case of the lCg-year-old boy from the Pipiwai district. Since the school at Ngararatunua had been destroyed by fire, classes had been conducted in the old Kamo school. No new cases were reported in the Central Auckland health district yesterday. but a suspect, a boy aged seven, from Hamilton, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. WELLINGTON HOPEFUL The present week, with no new cases of infantile paralysis, was the first clear week in Wellington for seven months, said the medical officer of health at Wellington (Dr H. Smith) yesterday. ‘•This is the most hopeful situation we have been able to report for some considerable time,” said Dr Smith. “It is, perhaps, too early to forecast optimistically, but we think it is a most helpful sign.”