THE NEW DISEASE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 8

THE NEW DISEASE.

Ihe mysterious disoa JO which has again brpken out in the Stahsfcjd .(gases) district is baffling the local Vdoctors.; 'The - disease, which was-first notejd; last year, was'thought to bo scarlet fever until many of the patients deviated from the normal course'of that ailment.. " .. , |V Dr. Haynes, who ; first drew' attention to the peculiarities of' th'o new disease,'has visited twelve.. cases in° thp. present outbreak, ■tour of these JiavQ .been in two families in so itary: farmhouses,; .with-; no children of school ago; to.introdiico';;the; 1 infection.'.. In two . other cases -whero .'phildrcn iiavo been .attacked tho.parents . had /had : typical'' influe'nia during'the prececling week; These cases'suggested that the. disease -migbt : be an.unusual Jorm'qf: s which, while ••typical;, in ;.adults, ''I'tdok -. ; tho {. form;- of an evanescent young'childreii. The disease, liko l German measles,-which it resembles more'closely than anv other of ..the eruptiv-e .feyers'/is iipt ~markedly. .inf?c-„ lions, which' peculiarity,; easily'-'distinguishes it from measles, and.scarlet fover, In orio family the "pareivtsf,and.J 'tfirce' children .'all'. S !!!r,—'• 'trom'-.the''fcyer;^'wliil9 f ' ! children, nonisolated arid in ■the same house; escapdd;contagion.: So; far most; of 'tlioJdaseV.'.h'ava'lbeenVvery ; 'ri- spmeMnstajices, wlicrej a profuse rash has-'S.uddqi(].v^appesrc(J,i-together .with; iivo.or. six ;degrees;;: offey.b'i:; "slight sore:, : thrpat,' and.iiauMaj-:a]l\|:'l)es().i'pympt()ms.have , "■wppsared 111 .'jours:-; Only, orio: case .has. ItaVl'any catarrhal or cold-m-the-hend sympto.ms'.js'P. common in ' true anc ', act. rato;;ii{',Ge'rman measles'. Tho rash'.is .'said'.to beisliglitly .mo're'brickqoloured than in scarlct fever'.-''