INFANTILE PARALYSIS
A CASE IN AUCKLAND. NOT OF SERIOUS NATURE. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 6. A ease of infantile paralysis in Auckland has been notified to the Health Department, the patient being a boy aged eight or nine years living in the Parnell district. The case is nc' serious,_ one leg only being affected. The boy is in the Auckland Hospital, and it is considered there is every hope of his recovery. “There is no occasion for anxiety, and this case is not at all significant,” said Dr T. J. Hughes, medical officer of health. “We are always likely to get sporadic cases of infantile paralysis.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19966, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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108INFANTILE PARALYSIS Otago Daily Times, Issue 19966, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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