HOSPITALS CLOSED
CHECK TO INFECTION BABIES’ GASTRIC DISEASE STILL NOT DIAGNOSED (Special Correspondent.) (10 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 20. As a precaution against gastrointestinal infection which caused the deaths of 22 infants in Leicestershire and a number of others in different parts of the country, admissirns to the Hull Municipal Maternity Hospital have been suspended and the Birkenhead .Municipal Hospital has been closed to visitors. The illness, which is officially described as an epidemic of diarrhoea of the new-born, is still not fullydiagnosed.
A New Zealand 'doctor, who has had some experience of it, stated that the outbreak appeared to be due to some organism too small to be detected by ordinary laboratory tests and which would require further research. Cases of the disease are known to have occurred during the war, but the outbreaks on those occasions did not receive the same publicity as at present. It has been found that a complete clearance of the wards in which the disease has occurred and special sterilisation of all equipment has generally served to check local development of the trouble.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22210, 21 December 1946, Page 5
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