INFANTILE PARALYSIS
VICTORIAN EPIDEMIC BUG AS THE CAUSE I United Press Association] • AUCKLAND, -3rd May. Although the infantile paralysis epidemic in Victoria has subsided, there I are hundreds of patients in the various I hospitals receiving after-care treati ment. said Mr H. Barrett, manager and ; secretary of the Melbourne Children’s Hospital, who is a through passenger ! by the Mariposa to San Francisco, j He is on an official world tour to ; gather information in respect to childrens hospitals, as a preliminary to the building of a new children’s hospital in Melbourne. “We had 2100 cases of infantile paralysis in Victoria during the epidemic,” said Mr Barrett. "The epidemic was a new experience to the hospital. Many of the patients contracted paralysis in the respiratory regions, and we had to l obtain thirty respirators constructed on ! the iron lung principle. No definite conclusions as to the origin of the epidemic have been reached, but it is definitely known that it is a bug In its treatment Victoria has done everything that has been attempted by other countries.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 May 1938, Page 8
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