MANY LIVES SAVED
USE OF NEW DRUG. TREATMENT OF MENINGITIS & PNEUMONIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) ■ LONDON, November 29. The use of the new drug Sulphapyridine has reduced fatalities from cere-bro-spinal-meningitis (spotted fever) to 33 per cent in 1939, compared with 6'6 per cent in the years 1934 to 1937. This was revealed-by the Minister of Health ,Mr Ernest Brown. He estimated that the skilled use of sulphapyridine in hospitals had saved 10.000 lives from spotted fever in 1939 and probably 7,500 from pneumonia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1942, Page 4
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