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History.
The mother goes out to do laundry work, and the child is
taken daily to the house of a neighbour, who looks after the child
while the mother is at work. About the middle of February the
child fell downstairs in the baby-minder's house, and she seemed
to have lost the use of the muscles of the right leg. On the
following day the mother noticed that the right hip was tender
and painful.
There was no weakness prior to the accident, and there was
no evidence to show that the fall was the result and not the cause
of the illness.
An uncle had been paralysed for 41 years.
Progress.
The child was taken 10 a local doctor, who advised the mother
to obtain Hospital treatment. The child attended as an outpatient
of the West London Hospital, and the case was notified
as Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis. Massage and electrical treatment
were applied. At the present time there is no paralysis of
any of the muscles, and the child can flex, extend, adduct, and
abduct the hip-joint to its fullest extent.
2. M. C., girl, aged 2 years. Notified on July 29th, 1913.
History.
The child complained of no pain, but the mother noticed,
about the middle of July, that one day the child could not lift her
right arm when she awoke from her sleep. Child was taken to a
local doctor, who advised the mother to take the child to St.
Mary's Hospital, where Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis was
diagnosed.
There was no history of paralysis in any near relative, and
the child, as far as could be ascertained, had not been in contact
with the previous case notified in the district.
The other children in the house returned to school after the
summer holidays.