FIGHTING PLAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1922, Page 5

FIGHTING PLAGUE.

SERUM FOUND TO CURE. REMARKABLE RESULTS. ITS USE IN SYDNEY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Last month the Minister for Health (Hon. C. J. Parr) observed in a summary of information which he received from Australia that remarkable results had attended the use of a new plague serum in Sydney, and there had been only one death out of 13 patients in New South Wales, which was much lower than the plague death-rate in Queensland. Further information was sought, and the Minister has now received some particulars from tiie*]>irector-General of Health at Sydney (Dr. Armstrong). The serum was the discovery of Dr. Burton Bradley, in the Bacteriological Institute of Australia, and has been used extensively in Sydney with results which Dr. Armstrong considers to be excellent. Of 22 patients treated, 18 recovered from the plague with expedition, and three w’ho died never had a chance —one came under the serum treatment five days after the beginning of the illness; one was moribund on admission to hospital, and one was 83 years of age. In every ordinary case, it would appear that the serum has been effective. As the results appear so remarkable, the Health Department, on instructions from the 'Minister, is making further investigations.