Pneumonia Catching .
Experience seems to show that pneumonia is very catching. Professor W. Osier has reported an instance of ten occupants 'of a house being attacked with it. In ,1892 a serious epidemic of fever associated with pneumonia occurred 1 in Paris, and was traced by Nocard to infection/ wj,th the germ which is the cause of a disease in parrots. Flindt has reported a case in which. the bed-coverings of a patient who' died from pneumonia were taken to a ndnse two miles' away and used on the bed of a child, who soon developed pneumonia. ' In another case the child developed pneumonia three days after the father began to repair a chair which had been used by a patent convalescing from pneumonia. " In hospitals bed-to-bed infection has been observed, but with ordinary precautions the danger of this is very slight. Many other definite cases are on record, and 1 in 1888 Ballard 1 described an epidemic in Middlesbrough of 367 cases in a population of 40,000. He thovght that the pneumonia was of eeptio origin and due to poisonous meat—bacon.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 76
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182Pneumonia Catching. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 76
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