SLEEPY SICKNESS.
LONDON, May 13. In researches into sleepy. siflvncst* (enrephalit is lethargic a), tin* mysterious malady which either kills or cripples, Dr C. tia Kano, at King’s College, St rami, W.C., has found minute hotlies in the hrains of people who have died of the disease. 'I liese may lie the causative germs. lie has also found that if the contents of the .little Misfers which appear around the mouth in pneumonia and oilier fevers are inoculated into animals, encephalitis similar to the human form is produced. "At present." said a pathologist to a reporter, "we must confess our complete ignorance concerning this new malady. It- has suddenly swooped down on America and almost every country in Europe. All we know about it is that it is mihllv infectious. It does not spread like measles or scarlet- levor.” This year there leave keen 1,100 cases notified in England and Wales, or nearly three times as many as in the corresponding period last year and seven times as many as in 10d2. Knur fresh cases have keen reported at Hclfast, bringing the total to 3-1.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1924, Page 1
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