CHILD PARALYSIS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20183, 1 May 1937, Page 8

CHILD PARALYSIS

WO POSITIVE CASES. FIRBT HAMILTON VICTIM. 24 PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL. Two more positive cases of Infantile paralysis were admitted to the Waikato Hospital last evening. They were a boy aged 10, from Koromatua, and a girl aged 11, from Victoria Street, Hamilton. The latter is the first victim from the town area that has been diagnosed as positive and with the other patient brings the number of hospital Inmates to 24.

A boy, aged four years, was brought In from Te Pol but was not a positive case, while a boy, aged 13 years, from Walton near Morrlnsville, also proved negative, the same result occurring In the case of a girl aged five from Raglan. A girl aged 16 months, who was brought in from Pukekawa by the St John Ambulance last evening, has not yet been proved positive. 80HOOL CLOSURE. RAILWAYMEN’S DEMAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. Over 700 employees of the Otahuhu railway workshops yesterday, passed a resolution calling upon the Government to close the schools. TE KUITI BUSPECT. PUKEKAWA CASE NEGATIVE. A suspected case of infantile paralysis from Te Kultl is expected at the Waikato Hospital this afternoon. The St. John Ambulance has been sent out to bring in the patient. A girl aged 16 months who was admitted from Pukekawa last evening has been diagnosed a negative case. FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS. Press Association reports from other centres are 8s follows: Kawakawa.—A Maori youth, 15 years old, was admitted to the Bay of Islands Hospital at Kawakawa from Walomo showing definite paralysis. The girl admitted from Maromaku on Thursday showed definite paralysis. There are now three definite cases in hospital. The first came from Okaihau, being the most serious. The schools in the district were closed yesterday morning until after the May holidays.

Oamaru. —Three further positive cases of infantile paralysis, the first for over a week, were sent to hospital yesterday. Two are brothers from the town, aged 9 and 10, both with muscular weakness, and a third is a girl aged 5 from Borton’e.