DEATH FOLLOWING YACCINATION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1929, Page 6

DEATH FOLLOWING YACCINATION

PROFESSOR TURNBULL’®,j STATE- '• " ' ' ' MENT. - ~ LONDON! !',/tnne ‘ 28. ’ Dr R. L. Guthrie,''tlie East London coroner, at the collusion of the inquest at the London Hospital yesterday on A r era Amelia*'Smith, agfcd 14, of Bvron •road, Manor' l T > ark, who died a month! after "being' _ vfiOeinatOd',". vecord,’ed l a A’erajct ; of ‘‘dea ? ’tlr f 6f;‘ Jmi.s'advent- ■ , '• Iff .V: bins .ure. . ..... , £ f ,v °' qvide.npci >‘<l i iig of. tire .disease; winch soiiicf'iln’cs ‘"/oflowed vacx.’inatif)|rilm&c l said' tli itiuV made : a ' ! niicrQS<di^ 3 ‘exani/n{i2fcin''' otT t J he ' brain ' and spinal, chord, and hacrTound ‘ thechanges which wore iliArhclCrlstic oT “post ;• vaccinal ' encephalO-myolitis.” This was f ,'a,particular 17incf oT inflammation; oL'ilie brain a'lift 1 * spnial cord which very rarely followed vaccination'. .“I added, ties are agreed that the disease has nothing tojlp with ‘sleepy sickness’ or infantile paralysis. ’

"When all vaccinations were taken into consideration this complication of vaccination was extremely rare. The groat majority of patients had not been vaccinated before. About half those affected died. The disease occurred in infants under one year.