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Otago Witness, Issue 3698, 27 January 1925, Page 15

Apropos of the infantile paralysis scare, a wain) resilient vouches for the truth of the following cure, which came under Iris notico in Hawko's Bay in 1921. A Maori mother was told by Napier doctors that her three and a-half year old son, severely stricken with the disease, had four days to live. She hurried the child to her home a sheep station 30 miles north of Napier, and immediately prepared a hot bath, in which bluegum leaves had been plentifully sprinkled. This treatment was continued at seven-hour intervals, and an improvement in the child s condition was almost immediately effected. This became eery marked at the end of a fortnight, and in three months the child was completely cured and healthy. Prior to the cccnmencement of this treatment the little su.ieir had never walked, and his right Ride wn» partially paralysed. Of Loudon’s 20,000 thoroughfares 112 are named “Church,” tho next most popular names boing “Park,” “Grove,” and “Vio toria.”