A MYSTERIOUS EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 1 June 1907, Page 3

A MYSTERIOUS EPIDEMIC.

Excitement almost akin to panic prevails in the little Merionethshire town of Corwen owing to a mysterious epijdemic which has broken out. During the week no fewer than eighteen sudden paralytic seizures have occurred amongst the inhabitants and several fatalities have followed. Mr R. D. Roberts, of JSronygraig. formerly High Sheriff of Denbighshire, died after a paralytic seizure, and Mis Peake succumbed without regaining consciousness. | n another case Mrs M'cdlock was seized at nine o'clock, shortly after her husband left for work, and she was not discovered until nine hours later, bavin',' ■lain unconscious and unseen meanwhile. She ultimately died. Another woman was seized whilst hanging curtains, and

death followed. The medical fraternity refuse to he "drawn" on the suhje.-t, hut one doctor attribute- the epidemic b, a strange cau>e. Ci.rweii U situ,il,.<l at the foot of n mountain some SWIIJI't high, of exposed slate stone. His theory is that the pro. cut sudden hot weather caused a lowering of the external pressure. The air became rarilied too rapidly and caused a shock to the nervous system. A suggest!.>n that Hie cpid.-mic is spoiled fever is denied. Councillor Samuel Jones and Councillor 11. Rees are slowly recovering from attacks. \o parallel to the epidemic is known in N'orth Wales.