SMALL BOY VICTIMS
POLIOMYELITIS IN WELLINGTON P.A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 28. Two small boys were reported as poliomyelitis cases to-day, a boy of seven from Khandallah and a boy of six from Upper Hutt. The children in these two boys’ classes at Kashmir and Upper Hutt schools will be kept away for a fortnight. Since the beginning of the epidemic there have been 231 cases in the Wellington district. Of these 62 have been under five years, 109 between the ages of five and 15 years and 60 have been over the age of 15.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26915, 29 October 1948, Page 6
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94SMALL BOY VICTIMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26915, 29 October 1948, Page 6
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