INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Southland Times, Issue 19500, 14 March 1925, Page 5

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

LATEST NOTIFICATIONS. MORE CASES REPORTED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 13. Infantile paralysis notifications for 24 hours ended 9 a.m. were 16, as follows :• — Auckland District 1 Wellington 5 Canterbury 8 Otago 2 ASHBURTON, March 13. A suspected case of infantile paralysis has been sent to hospital from Laureston, making the second from that district, but it is not considered a contact as the quarantine period expired over a fortnight ago. The patient is aged 14 months. DUNEDIN, March 13. One of yesterday’s suspects, a boy of four years, has been declared positive. The total positive cases since the epidemic began is 24, with four deaths. NAPIER, March 13. There are no fresh cases of infantile paralysis. The total to date is seven. RAETIHI, March 13. The Raetihi Sports and Caledonian Club decided to abandon its sports meeting, to have been held on March 20, owing to the infantile paralysis. AUCKLAND, March 11. For the 24 hours between noon yesterday and noon to-day, only one fresh case of infantile paralysis has been notified to the Auckland District Health Office, being a case in South Auckland. Within the same period there has been another death, that of a patient in Auckland Hospital. TIMARU, March 12. The seventh death from infantile paralysis in South Canterbury occurred at mid-night, a Maori boy, aged eight years, from Temuka. CHRISTCHURCH, March 12

Between noon to-day and 10 p.m., seven fresh cases of infantile paralysis were notified to the District Health Officer. One case was at Rangiora, but all the others were in and around the city. Dr. Telford, medical officer of health, told a reporter to-day respecting the infantile paralysis epidemic that only one new notification, that of a three and -half years old girl from Linwood, had been made since noon yesterday.