TEN CHILDREN DIE
AN ITALIAN TRAGEDY. NEGLIGENCE BY PROFESSOR. DEFECTIVE SERUM ISSUED. (United Press Association—Copyright). ROME, May 1. Ten children have died and a large number are seriously ill in A enice, Milan, Genoa and elsewnere as a result of being innoculated with an anti-diph-theria serum prepared in a Naples institute. An official communique states that, owing to deplorable negligence, a quantity of anti-toxins, after being passed by the laboratory of the Health Bureau, were subjected to further manipulation, being mixed with others. Tlie director, Professor Terni, and his assistant have been arrested and charged with criminal negligence. Tlie affected children are being treated by Italy’s foremost specialists. As the incubation period in tlie case of a majority of those vaccinated has passed, or is passing, it is hoped that there will 1 be no more deaths.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 171, 3 May 1933, Page 5
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