Bsi Polio Outbreak Over
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.From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, June 26.
THE poliomyelitis outbreak in Honiara is now regarded as over. Honiara and Yandina have been declared “clean” ports, and local restrictions on schools and picture shows have been lifted.
Though there were a number of deaths and partially disabled patients, a feature of the outbreak was the camparatively large proportion of mild cases.
In contrast to outbreaks in other years, this year’s infection for the first time affected Europeans, one death and several minor cases occurring. Areas in which the 1947 epidemic took heavy toll of natives were comparatively lightly affected this year.
The Rev. Father J. Doyle, MSC, who has been parish priest of Randwick, NSW, has been appointed Prefect Apostolic of Samarai, Eastern Papua.
The Melanesian Mission’s MV Southern Cross left Honiara for New Zealand in the last week of May. Passengers in cluded Father Edwards of the Melanesian Mission, Miss Rachel Davies, a Mission teacher, Mrs. E. J. Harrison and child, and Mr. Garth Simmons, a New Zealander returning home at the expiration of his contract with the Lands and Mines De partment of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Government.