“NO NEED FOR ALARM.”
INFANTILE PAR AT.YSTS. AUTHORITIES WILL NOT BE OAUGIIT I’NPREPARED, ;S|<?cin| to tho Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. While it is (he view of the authorities that there are at present no indications of an epidemic of infantile paralysis occurring this summer, they will hot lie caught unprepared in the event of there being such an unwelcome visitation. Dr. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchurch Hospital, who prepared the serum which was used so successfully last summer, stated last night that he had on hand) a supply sufficient for half a dozen cases, and! if necessary more could be obtained without delay by calling upon former patients, particularly admits, to donate blood. He did not think there was much likelihood of another epidemic so soon after the last one. , There was no need for alarm because an odd case was reported occasionally.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16920, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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143“NO NEED FOR ALARM.” Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16920, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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