Fatal Paralysis Case At Gisborne
GISBORNE. Yesterday (PA).—A Maori boy aged nine from the Ruatoria area, who was diagnosed as a positive case of polio last week, died on Friday, according to a report from the Health Department today. The child did not die in hospital.
Another Maori child, aged 2i, from the Tikitiki area, is also a positive case, but is not yet in hospital.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 November 1948, Page 5
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