INFANTILE MORTALITY.
DEATH RATE-RISES TXTi* SIX, PE& .PER CENT v! '' "AUCKLAND,: Marefr'tf % > Nine fatal cases'of infantile -paralysis "have- been -notified, since" tioon yesterday. -making the .total fatal s cases" tfyrtytwo-.. SUSCEPTIBILITY- pF. INFANTS..'' The'large proportion among children -under 1 fcvvo ,years of age has been generally remarked. - Discussing this poinfc (reports the n.ld) Dr Hughes said - that" jt seemed fairly certain the disecse %>nterfcd> by ■way- pi the mouth jnid«nose. 'lt was a phvWogieal fact that these membranes* were more- easily permeablo ,'hy microorganisms 'in the infant under 'two years of as;e than in older -children or lidults, and the susceptibility of_/the former "was increased by tho probabib> tv that the membranes would be * further weakened by Hho process of mg, Dr Hughes said experiments, vUJi s monkeyfe had shown v thafc after scratching tlie membrane qf the mouth» . a monkey "was more easily infected with' the disease than J one -']-'?h.had not been so injured. /Eho inferior powers of resistance to disease the mucuous membranes was quite probably one _ of. tlie principal factors producing the high, attack rate in. children under two years.. ; and-Bluo. §ersre and Cloth, 12s ll.d> !Jss \ 6d to 25s' 6d^' gaberdine Skirts * v 22s , 6d* at TrathenVand Special, House for Ladies*' A-pjMiiel.* e '/ -*" j'
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Nelson Evening Mail, 8 March 1916, Page 4
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