CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13522, 2 November 1911, Page 5

CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.

Frew Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, November I. Thirty cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis have occurred atStokesdown, and there have been six deaths. Dr. Adkins, medical officer for Devonshire, reported to the County Education Committee recently, that on account of an outbreak in various parts of the county of acute poliomyelitis (inflammation of the grey matter of the spinal cord) he had advised the closing of twenty-five Schools in districts where the disease was prevalent. . Twelve out of fifty-two districts in the county were affected, and altogether there were eighty cases and sixteen deaths. A’great many children were permanently paralysed. One doctor had thirty-five patients, of which seven were permanently paralysed. The disease was very much like hydrophobia. It was caused by a little germ, and experiments showed that it could be carried through Seventeen monkeys, and then be icprodueed. It was not a new disease, but was coming more to the front. Mr. Blight: It is not a new disease, hut is called by a now name to frighten people. Dr. Adkins further stated that there were three definite cases of spotted fever known amongst the numerous ones reported.