DISTURBING POSITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26784, 29 May 1948, Page 8

DISTURBING POSITION

INFANTILE PARALYSIS OUTBREAK

FURTHER CASES IN NORTH P.A. AUCKLAND, May 28.

The infantile paralysis position was disturbing, but a close watch on the incidence of the disease was being maintained by the Health Department, said' the Minister of Health, Miss Howard, in Hamilton. The fact that cases were still being reported proved that the disease was not peculiar to warm weather.

Another suspected case of infantile paralysis, a child aged eight, has been admitted to the Auckland Hospital. The number of patients there is now 50 positives and two suspects. An eight-year-old girl from Te Awamutu, who is in the Waikato’Hospital, has been diagnosed as a positive case.

A ten-year-old boy from xuriwin, near Dargaville, who was admitted to the Northern Wairoa Hospital as a suspected case on Wednesday has been diagnosed as positive. This is the third case in the district in three days, and brings the number of notifications in North Auckland to '3B.

Two further posiuve cases of paralysis were reported in the South Auckland health district. They were a youth, aged 17, from Harapepe, who was taken to the Waikato Hospital, and a 14-year-old boy from Rotorua, who is in the Rotorua Hospital. A Wellington message states that a child suspect has been admitted to hospital. She is from a family in which a member has already been diagnosed as a positive case. According to a Masterton message a man, agd 38, from Featherston, has been admitted to hospital as a positive case.