BUNDABERG DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 2

BUNDABERG DEATHS

THE SAFE mum FOR serum EXTENSIVE EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BRISBANE, February IS. Before the Serum Commission, Dr Christenson, analyst to the Queensland Commissioners of Health, gave evidence that in his opinion the danger attending the bulk use of serum should be a matter of common knowledge to_ any trained doctor, even without a printed note of warning, and he was blameable if he kept the serum longer than the time generally accepted as a safe margin. He declared that if the serum in the fatal bottle was examined it would be found that the balance had been upset, making the serum a poison. He submitted a statement shelving that the content of toxin and anti-toxin serum was prepared in the most correct proportions between two . reacting agents, and how, if this was upset, the serum became a poison. This could be possible by drawing the serum through a rubber tube, thereby causing expulsion of the air and encouraging the production of multiplying of diphtheria bacteria, and upsetting the equilibrium of the serum. Tim Chairman of the Commission fteted that the Commission sras making

extensive experiments nnereoy it is hoped not only to throw light on the deaths, but to ensure that the like will never occur again in this or any other country.