A DEADLY DISEASE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13525, 6 November 1911, Page 5

A DEADLY DISEASE.

Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received November 6, 9.0 a.m. LONDON, November 5. In consequence of the epidemic in Cornwall and Devon of poliomyelitis, or infantile spinal paralysis, it' lias been declared a notifiable disease,-' During recent,ypara a disease which'is known by the name of acute poliomyelitis, °F[ priio-ouoeplialitis, has engaged attention in Europe, especially in Norway arid Germany, as well as in the great cities of the United States of America. Tills disease, which occurs principally among children, proves fatal to about 11 or 12 per cent, of the persons attacked, and is responsible for the production among those who survive of the condition known as infantile paralysis. In the northern hemispliere occurrence of the disease is mostly noticeable during the summer months, and as in some instances multiple attacks have occurred in same households, schools, or streets, these have been attributed to infection from one person to another. The Royal College of Physicians points out the possibility of cases of terchro-spinal meningitis being mistaken for the now disease, and in these circumstances the London County Council recently scheduled the* new disease for compulsory notification.