SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS IN SYDNEY.

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1922, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS IN SYDNEY.

WELLINGTON, May 17. Last month, the Minister of Health (the Hon. .1. Parr) observed in a summary of the information which he received from Australia, that remarkable results had attended the use of a now plague serum in Sydney. There had been only one death out of 13 patients in New South Wales, which was much lower than the plague death rate in Queensland. Further information was sought, and the Minister has now received some particulars from the Di-rector-General of Health, at Sydney. Dr Armstrong stated that the serum was the discovery of Dr Burton Bradley in the Bacteriological Institute of Australia, and has been used extensively in Sydney with results which Dr Armstrong* considers to be excellent. Of 22 patients treated, IS recovered from plague >|’th expedition, and three of those who died, never had a chance. One came under the serum treatment five days after the beginning of the illness, one was moribund on admission to the hospital and one was S 3 years of age. In every ordinary case it would appear that the scrum has been effective, as the results appear so remarkable. The New Zealand Health Department, on the instruction of the Minister, is making a further investigation.