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TREATMENT OF INSANE INFECTION WITJH MALARIA. USEFUL DATA OBTAINED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.50 a.m to-day. LONDON, Sept. 29. Useful data was obtained at the London County Mental Hospital from experiments in treating for general paralysis of the insane. A colony of malaria-infected mosquitoes was bred in a gauze-protected building, wherein the paralysed patients were exposed to insect bites ' They thus contracted malaria naturally, instead of artificially by direct blood methods. Out of 45 cases wherein the malarial condition was thus induced, nine were discharged as recovered, thirteen were markedly improved, ten failed to improve, and five died. The others are still being treated. Leading European specialists are personally interesting themselves in the experiment.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 September 1927, Page 9
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116NEW METHOD Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 September 1927, Page 9
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