LUBECK TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 11

LUBECK TRAGEDY

MANY CHILDREN DEAD

NURSE AND TWO DOCTORS

ARRESTED

(Received 12th July, 2 p.m.)

BERLIN, 11th July

■Two doctors and a nurse have been arrested at Lubeck and charged with culpable homicide in connection with tho death of fifty-fivo children of tuberculosis. It is feared that most of the sixty-four children still iv hospital will not recover. The prosecution alleges that the doctors continued the inoculations long after the first children died, and, moreover, that they destroyed the scrum, in order to hide the cause of the epidemic.

On.6th. July the Berlin correspondent of "The Times" cabled that more than fifty infants treated by tho Calmette serum process had died in Lubeck. He added that the Government's investigators were satisfied that the blame did not attach to Dr. Calmette and the Pasteur Institute. It was thought that, either, by accident or carelessness,, the cultures had become polluted. The investigators are hampered, said tho correspondent, as Professor Deyke, head of the L.ubpek Hospital, threw away all preparations ready in tho laboratory wlien the first infant died, as ho wished to destroy the source of further harm, but he forgot to call in supplies already in the hands of .private physicians, who continued to administer them to infants. Professor Dcykc's conduct was the subject of a special investigation oi-flerfid by the Public Prosecutor, and probably the arrests notified iv today's cablegram have arisen out of the inquiry.