Infantile Paralysis In
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Papua
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, July 27.
17K)UR cases of infantile paralysis, at r Mailu Island, in the Eastern Division of Papua, were reported to the Admini stration during July. The cases, which were diagnosed and treated by Dr. Ver non, of Port Glasgow, nearby, and the Samarai Native Hospital, have recovered.
Quarantine has been established in the Mailu district. No native child under 18 years of age is permitted to leave the island or district, and the natives are be ing closely watched.
Infantile paralysis is not unknown among the natives of Papua. From time to time, single cases have been reported from different districts. It is not thought that these cases at Mailu have any con nection with the late epidemic in Aus tralia.