INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
Sporadic Case in North Canterbury. “It is only a sporadic case and is not likely to produce an epidemic,” said Dr T. Fletcher Telford .medical officer of health for Canterbury and the West Coast, when asked to-day concerning a case of infantile paralysis which has been notified from North Canterbury. It is the first case cf infantile paralysis to be notified in the Canterbury district for a long time. The number of cases of infectious and notifiable diseases reported in the past week was only three, as follows: Tuberculosis 1, infantile paralysis 1 and septic abortion 1. There was one death from septic abortion. No fresh cases were reported on the West Coast.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20281, 16 April 1934, Page 7
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