PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13470, 26 January 1937, Page 5

PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC.

ANOTHER FATAL CASE. FURTHER VICTIMS ADMITTED. Electric Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, J annary 25. A positive case of infantile paralysis, a boy aged 14 from Luggage, was admitted to hospital at Clyde yesterday. NEGATIVE DIAGNOSIS. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The woman of forty from Miramar who was admitted to the Wellington Public Hospital on Saturday for observation as a suspected case of infantile has been proved negative. This leaves Wellington with only one positive case in Jiospital. FATAL CASE AT OAMARU. O AMARU, January 25. The youth, aged 19, admitted to the Oamaru Hospital from Kauru Hill last Thursday with infantile paralysis, died last evening. FREE FROM DISEASE. BIEA HEIM, January 25. Advice received from the Wellington health authorities states that tlie case of tlie boy of six admitted to the Picton Hospital as a suspected sufferer from infantile paralysis has been diagnosed as negative. Consequently the quarantine restrictions on the boy’s family and others having contact with him have been removed. CASE AT TIMARXJ. TIAIARU, Last Night. After freedom from cases of infantile paralysis for three weeks, a case of a young married man, 29 years of age, was admitted to Tim-' aru . Hospital to-day. The case was diagnosed as positive but without paralysis. NO CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY. DUNEDIN, Last Night. No further cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Dunedin today. A 14-year-old boy from Luggate was admitted to Clyde hospital on Sunday and on examination proved to be a positive case of inlection. SUGGESTION FOR INVESTIG ATI ON. DOG DISTEMPER AS POSSIBLE SOURCE OF INFECTION. M A STEP TO X, Last Night. The possibility that distemper in dogs may have some bearing ( ,u the infantile paralysis infection, is suggested by a Wairarapa farmer, Mr E. F. Barton. Mr Barton said lie had noted during the infantile paralysis ep’demic of 1925, a number of cases—he instanced ten or more—in which children who contracted the disease had previously been more or less in contact with dogs suffering from distemper and in some instances had tended s.c-k animals. He made it clear that he merely gave tlie results of In’s observations for what they were worth-and as possibly deserving the Attention or those who were investigating the sources and methods of infantile paralysis infection.