INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 8

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

LATEST NOTIFICATIONS. TWENTY FRESH CASES. (Peb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 14. The infantile paralysis notifications for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. total 20. They are as follows: Auckland Province, 2. Wellington, 12. Canterbury, 6. There was none in Wellington city. DEATH AT NELSON. (Peh United Phess Association.) NELSON, February '4. A case of infantile paralysis, a boy four years of age, who was admitted to hospital from Stoke on Thursday, ended fatally to-day. FATAL CASE IN CHRISTCHURCH. DISEASE ASSUMES MORE SEVERE FORM. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 14. The first death from infantile paralysis occurred in Christchurch this morning, when a girl of four years, from West Melton, died in hospital. Three new cases are reported. Dr Fox, medical superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital, stated to-day that, generally speaking, the cases now being admitted to the hospital were showing the disease in a more marked form than those of a week or more ago Some criticism has been levelled at Dr Telford (medical officer of health) for prohibiting the bolding of flower shows, even if children are not admitted. He stated to-day that such shows were likely to cause gatherings of children outside, while the exhibits were being carried in, and he had therefore decided that as a measure of safety they should not be held. SUSPECTED CASE AT ASHBUE/TON. (Per United Press Association.) ASHBURTON, February 14. A suspect, a boy, aged three, residing in Kermode street, has been admitted to hospital. POSITION AT TIMARU. (Per United Press Association.) TIMARU, February 13. No farther oases of infantile paralysis are reported. The total of definite cases to date in South Cantorlmry is six, two of which proved fatal. There have also i>een four suspicious cases.

CASE AT ALEXANDRA. CHILD FIVE MONTHS OLD. ISOLATED IN CLYDE HOSPITAL. Dr Orawshaw (district medical officer of health) left Dunedin yesterday morning to investigate a suspected case of infantile paralysis at Alexandra. The sufferer, a child five months of age, was found to have contracted the disease and wag immediately placed in isolation in the Clyde Hospital. Five “contacts” were also isolated. COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES. NOT OBSERVING REGULATIONS. In conversation with a Daily Times reporter last night, Dr Crawshaw (district medical officer of health) stated that some of the picture theatre proprietors in the country districts were not observing the regulations laid down by the department in regard to the admission of children under 16 years of age. Unless the regulations were more strictly adhered to than they were at present, he said, he would bo forced to institute proceedings against some of them. INVESTIGATION OF DISEASE. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S REQUEST. (Fbom Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND. February 14. Officials of *he British Medical Association in Auckland express keen disappointment at the manner in which the Minister of Public Health (Sir Maui Pomarc) has ignored the request of a resolution of a record meeting of the profession for the establishment of an adequate research organisation for the investigation of infantile paralysis and other infectious diseases. Moreover, they dissent sharply, hut in good temper, from “the Minister’s immature conclusions on the subject,'' and announce definitely that it is the intention of the association as a whole to pursue the matter to essential finality. “The whole question of medical research.” said an official of the British Medicial Association hero, “is to come up for consideration before the Council of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association at its annual meeting afTimaru op February 21, and the association is determined that this matter, which is of vital inforosf to the public, shall be brought to a definite and adequate conclusion. The Wellington division of the British Medical Association has passed n resolution similar to that of the record meeting of members in Auckland, and we want the State Administration to understand that our recommendation to the Minister of Health is not merely the expression of a passing opinion. It is in no sense the impulsive product of this epidemic of infantile paralysis Wo are determined to show that our recommendation represents the unanimous and considered opinion of the medical profession on this vital nuestion of research. The British Medical Association is the only organisation in New Zealand that is competent to deal_ with the position, and we are going to insist that this shall be done.”