Hawera’s Third Fatal Adult Poliomyelitis Case In 14 Months
HAWERA, Yesterday.— Hawera’s third fatal adult case of poliomyelitis in 14 months of the present incedence of the disease occurred at the Hawera hospital yesterday in the death of a 22-year-old man admitted from Manaia on December 20, stated the office of the Health Department at New Plymouth today, in response to inquiries by the "Hawera Star.’’ He was Mr. Ashley Frank Croft, of Sefton, Canterbury, who had been employed in the Waimate Plains district as an agricultural contract worker. He had been afflicted in the respiratory system.
Since December 20 other sporadic cases of poliomyelitis in the province included a six-year-old New Plymouth girl on Christmas Eve and two young women, one at Tariki and the other at Inglewood, over the New Year period. All three are patients in the New Plymouth Hospital.
In all there have been 132 cases in the province in the past 14 months to date. Seven patients have died.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 January 1949, Page 4
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