SLEEPY SICKNESS
TREATMENT OF CHILDREN. SERIOUS AFTER EFFECTS, A hundred beds are to bo set aside at Northern Hospital, Winchmoro Hill, for the treatment of children .suffering from the after-effects of bleepy sicknessss, a disease which is spreading with alarming rapidity, says a London paper. Seven child patients are already receiving treatment in the hospital, and there is a waiting list of twenty. The after-effects of sleepy sickness tako an extraordinary form. Loss of memory, paralysis, fits and lunacy are common among those who have recovered from the disease. Sometimes the character of a child is entirely changed. _ A normal child may develop criminal tendencies; physical deterioration and loss of control of emotions have also been noted in sufferers. Children appear to be more liable to suffer from serious after effects than adults. Often they become completely unmanageable, spiteful, untruthful and they begin thieving. ’ The disease presents one of the most serious problems which medical science has to faco to-day. The symptoms are sometimes mistaken for influenza. Sleepy sickness was unknown in Europe until 1918. The proportion of deaths is 40 in every 100 persons attacked.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 2
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186SLEEPY SICKNESS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 2
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