INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 61, 2 May 1925, Page 5

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

EPIDEMIC BOOKS CLOSED. RESTRICTIONS LIFTED. The district medical officers have received instructions from the Health Department to close their epidemic books and to furnish reports before the middle of June. All data will ho incorporated in a comprehensive report to bo issued immediately after compilation. The restrictions re-imposed on tno whole of the Hokianga County' because of infantile paralysis in that area have now been lifted. Dr. Telford, medical health officer, of Christchurch, reported on Friday that there are thirty-five children suffering from infantile paralysis in the public; hospital, hut all of them are getting on very well and the- medical staff believe that practically all the little patients ultimately will be left without any material after-weakness. This result, Dr. Telford -said, must be attributed to the use of the conva’les* cent serum. From the time of the outbreak in the Christchurch health district, which comprises Canterbury and the West Coast, until noon today 214 positive cases were reported and there were 27 deaths.

A suspect case of infantile paralysis was reported a Opunake yesterday, the patient being a child of nine months, who was taken-to the New Plymouth Hospital.