MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.
SLEEPING SICKNESS. BY CABLE —rSESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 26, 9.15 a.m. TOKIO, Aug. 25. Much alarm has been caused by an outbreak of a mysterious epidemic in the middle-west districts. Of 2500 cases 900 resulted in death The epidemic is apparently a form of sleeping sickness. The victims, who are mostly elderly, fall into a doze from which it is impossible to awaken them, and finally die. Bacteriologists so far have been unable to trace the source, but believe it is a form of spinal meningitis. Another theory is that the disease is a form of epidemical , brain fever, which spread all over the world a quarter of a century ago, and is closely connected with brain fever. — Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 August 1924, Page 5
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123MYSTERIOUS DISEASE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 August 1924, Page 5
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