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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3996, 12 September 1929, Page 1

“What is the period of incubation of tetanus?” asked Mr. Justice Blair in the Arbitration Court at Auckland, when hearing ia claim for compensation. Mr. E. H. Northeroft, counsel foil- the claimant, said lie understood that'normally it was two days or might be two or three weeks (reports the “New Zealand Herald.”) It might even be as long as twenty years, for there was no limit at present known to medical science of the time tetanus, or lockjaw, might lie latent and then suddenly hare up. Frequently the period was two or three weeks. One of the medical witnesses, Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, described as a myth the popular belief that a cut between the fingers caused lockjaw. Another expert witness, Mr. F. L. Armitage, bacteriologist, said that he did not know of any case of tetanus arising two and a half years after infection, as had been suggested in this instance.