INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 2

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

CASES FROAI KAITAIA. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 2G. Under an arrangement made recently between the Health Department in Auckland and outlying hospitals, four cases of infantile paralysis were brought by bus and train from Kaitaia and were taken to the Auckland Hospital for further treatment. They are among the first of the patients to bo brought to the city under this scheme, which has been arrived at in order to relieve the smaller hospitals of what is in the nature of extraordinary work to them, and to give the patients the advantage of the wider range of equipment possessed by the Auckland Hospital. One of the patients brought to Auckland was a boy of about four years, one a girl of seven, another a Maori boy aged four, and the fourth was a Maori woman. All were positive cases and three were in splints. Although they had to go from Kaitaia to Otiria by bus and the remainder of the journey was by train, all four were very patient and stood up to their discomforts bravely. They were accompanied by a nurse, and when they reached Auckland they were taken to the hospital by taxi.