AUCKLAND'S FIRST

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 145, 21 June 1941, Page 8

AUCKLAND'S FIRST

SPINAL MENINGITIS CHILD DIES AT HOSPITAL When the 37-nv mh*. old daught«r of Mr. and Mis. Trevor X. Foote (iunson Street, • Was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Wednesday evei.mg last "the medical staff diagnose i her case as one of spinal meninr.u i-- Within f«„ hours the child d;e<! This is «£ first case of death '.Ton, ihe disease in Auckland since t:;, r.ild epidentfr was reported from tV.e North snm. months ago. The chairman o' the Auckland Hot pital Board. Mr. Allan J. Moodf" said to-day after ihe acting medical Mrperintendem ;2 the hospital. Dr. W. Gilmour. everything pr>ssib> was d7r£ urgently to save the child's life.hu, the progress of ;he disease Mc f rapid that all remedial were unavailing. The history of tS case showed that the child had bera suffering from bronchitis An officer of ihe Health Deaament said that there were a numW of people who carried meninSfcl germs in their throats, and tSSf occasionally developed, when the patient was run dow£ This was more often m the wint-i months when co!ds and influSS were prevalent. Wh,t had hapnSS in the North could he called epidemic of the disease and anmL fear was created that it might afU* the Armed Forces. In consequent restrictions on travel were imnlicSi and other precautions taken This informant s= ; jd that" it not generally known that meninidta cases occurred which were notoftS epidemic class, although the toms appeared to he the same. cases could only be distinguishertw bacteriological examination fore people should not' alarmed over meningitis r patients who had not developed epidemic disease could be nureed he ordinary way and did nothaw to be isolated. When the eDMiS£ was at its height in the cases were diagnosed in and none was of the People should not be scared bL§2£ the cases appear to be exacU^s£ added. 1S th<? ° pidomsc varied «£