INFANTILE PARALYSIS
INCREASING IN CHRISTCHURCH. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FURTHER SPREAD. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, January 27. The official report on infantile paralysis in -Obrisbohurah to-day is thatthe disease has a tendency to increase •here. The chairman of the Hospital Board stated yesterday that there were sixteen oaaee in the Christchurch Hospital, but Dt. Telford reported an noon to-day that there were twenty auea in the hospital then, and that there are more to go in. The patients in the hospital are isolated and precautions are -taken againstthe spread of the infeotian. The Health Department has given instructions tliai aO'l oases of the disease must be notified in order tlfot infection may be prevented in the homes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10810, 28 January 1921, Page 8
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