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AT NAPLES LABORATORY ANTI-TOXIN MISCLASSED. TEN CHILDREN DEAth MANY OTHERS AFFECTED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) ROME, May 1.
Ten children have died aud a large number of others are seriously ill in Venice, Milan, Genoa, and elsewhere as the result of inoculation with an anti-diphtheria serum prepared at the Naples Institute. An official communique states that, owing to deplorable negligence, a quantity of anti-toxins, after being classed by the laboratory of the Health Bureau, were subject to further manipulation and mixed with others.
The director of the institute, Professor Terni, and his assistant have boon arrested and charged with criminal negligence.
. The, affected children . are being treated by Italy’s foremost specialists. As the incubation period of the .majority of those vaccinated has passed,'. or is passing, it is hoped there will lie no more deaths.
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1933, Page 5
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