Two More Paralysis Cases In Auckland
(P.A.) Auckland, May 26. Two more positive cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in the central Auckland health district. One is a nine-year-old girl from Avondale, who was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Sunday with a different diagnosis. The other, a boy aged 12, from Hillsborough, was admitted to hospital on Monday as a suspect case.
There weie 52 positive cases and two suspects in the Auckland Hospital tonight. Infantile paralysis restrictions preventing travellers under 18 years visiting the Cook Islands, resulted in the Government motor vessel Maui Pomare leaving Auckland for Rarotonga tonight with only 10 passengers, one-third of her capacity. The Maui Pomare has now been affected by the restrictions for several voyages, and there is a large list of families waiting in New Zealand for the restrictions to be lifted.
Passengers by the motor ship Matua, which left Auckland today for Suva, Apia and other island ports, are bound by infantile paralysis precautions at Suva and Apia. A quarantine on children is Imposed at Suva and all passengers are quarantined on landing at Apia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 May 1948, Page 5
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