INFANTILE PARALYSIS
TWO CASES AT EDGECUMBE CLOSING OF SCHOOL ORDERED [from our own con RESPONDENT J HAMILTON, Monday Two children attending the Edgpcumbe school, iiangitniki Plains, have been reported to be suffering from infantile paralysis. As a consequence the Edgeeumbe school was closed as from to-day until further notice. The district health officer at Hamilton, Dr. H. B. Turbott, stated to-day that the epidemic throughout the Waikato and East Coast was definitely on the wane, and that only occasional isolated eases were now being reported. A woman aged 10, a resident of To Aroha. has been admitted to the Waikato Hospital, and is being treated as a positive case of infantile paralysis.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22743, 1 June 1937, Page 10
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