PARALYSIS CASES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 11

PARALYSIS CASES

CHILD IN CANTERBURY POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS MADE OTHERS UNDER OBSERVATION [BY TKLKCJRAPH rRF.SS association] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday A girl of nine years from the Morven district lias been admitted to the Waimate Hospital suffering from infantile paralysis. The case has been diagnosed as positive. This was reported to-day to the medical officer of health at Christchurch, Dr. Fletcher Telford. Jn the Christchurch Hospital are two children suspected of having contracted the disease. Neither case has yet been conclusively diagnosed. One is a Maori child, aged seven months, and the other is a girl of 10 years, from White Cliffs, 40 miles north-west of Christchurch. Both homes are under quarantine. Although it is not known how the Morven child contracted the disease, it is reported that several Dunedin families, including children, are at present in the Waimate district, some of them spending the holidays at Morven. They have been in the district for about three weeks, having left Dunedin before the ban was placed on children travelling from that city. Morven is eight miles from Waimate and about 30 miles south of Timaru.

FOURTH DEATH AT DUNEDIN GIRL OF 18 YEAHS SUCCUMBS [BY TKLKGRAI'H —IMIKSS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN, Wednesday A girl, aged 18 years, who was admitted to hospital in Dunedin to-day suffering from heavy respiratory paralysis, died this afternoon. The girl, whose home was in South Dunedin, but who was brought to hospital from Waikouaiti, where she had been staying, is the fourth patient to die of the disease since the epidemic broke out, two children and an adult having died in the past three weeks. A woman, 26 years old, who resides at Maori Hill, was admitted to hospital this afternoon suffering from severe paralysis and was placed on the dangerously ill list. A six-year-old child from the Anderson's Bay district also was brought in. In the latter case, however, infection is only suspected. The child has been placed under observation. At present there are 34 cases in the Dunedin Hospital suffering from varying degrees of paralysis. Of these, i 3 are considerably paralysed and the remainder are paralysed comparativelylightly. Commenting on the position to-night, the district health officer, Dr. T. McKibbin, said that while the number of daily admissions was, fortunately, not increasing, the necessity still remained for the public to observe every precaution.

SITUATION AT WELLINGTON SUSPECTED CASE IX HOSPITAL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Wednesday A suspected ease of infantile paralysis, a child of five rears, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital this morning. The child has been placed in isolation, but it is very doubtful whether it has contracted the disease. There has been no diagnosis, the admission being for observation. OCCURRENCE IN SOUTHLAND GORE HOSPITAL PATIENT [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION"] IXVKRCARGILL, Wednesday The first positive case of infantile paralysis in Southland is reported from Gore. On Monday a man of 28 years, residing at Kiversdale, 18 miles from Gore, was admitted to the Gore Hospital and yesterday he showed definite symptoms of infantile paralysis. He is fairly extensively paralysed.' BOYS' CAMP POSTPONED AUCKLAND Y.M.C.A. DECISION As the restrictions imposed owing to the outbreak of infantile paralysis have not yet been lifted, the Auckland Y.M.C.A. has decided not to open its camp for boys at Hunua on Saturday as had been intended.