SLEEPING SICKNESS.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 7 May 1919, Page 4

SLEEPING SICKNESS.

’FLU AFTERMATH.

San Francisco, March 25,

The United States is now afflicted with a terrible epidemic as an aftermath of the dread Spanish influenza and pneumonia which ha's carried off hundreds of thousands of the American population. Cases of sleeping sickness arc scattered all over the American domain, but the time of writing not in alarming numbers. Twenty-one deaths have already occurred. More than 100 eases have been listed as actual sleeping sickness in seventeen cities, but there arc believed to be many as yet unrecorded. Cleveland and Springfield, Illinois, each reported 25 cases. New York had forty. Chicago’s number was unknown, the health authorities not desiring to make the figures public. Other points showing “a trace” of the -malady were: Richmond, Virginia, San Francisco, Fort Worth, Calumet, Michigan,s Minneapolis, Dos Moines, Lo Angelos, Lancaster, Ohio, Boston, Harrisburg,’ Albany; and - Pittsburg. In this disease the sufferer,lapses into a

.talc of,coma. In many instances the

recovery is complete. (Some have been known'to sleep for eight or ten-days and then, “come ~ to _ life” in good health. A. number of committees arc considering taking precautions similar to those", taken .against spread of influenza..