PARALYSIS VICTIMS
AFTER-CARE TREATMENT HUNDREDS IN VICTORIA (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Although the infantile paralysis epidemic in Victoria has subsided, there are hundreds of patients in the various hospitals receiving after-care treatment, said Mr. H. Barrett, managersecretary of the Melbourne Children’s Hospital’, who is a through passenger by the Mariposa for San Francisco on an official world tour to gather information in respect to children’s hospitals as a preliminary to the building of a new children's hospital in Melbourne.
“We had 2100 cases in Victoria during the epidemic,” said Mr. Barrett. “The epidemic was a new experience to the hospitals. Many patients contracted paralysis in the respiratory regions, and we had to obtain 30 respirators constructed on the iron lung principle. At times, ail were in use.” Mr. Barrett added that millions of pounds had been spent throughout the world on research, tout no definite conclusions as to the origin of the disease had been reached. "It is definitely known that it is a bug,” lie said. In treatment, Victoria has done everything that has been attempted by other countries.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 7
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