SPOTTED FEVER IN NEW YORK.
HEAVY MORTALITY. By Telegraph Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 3. There have been 700 deaths in New York during three months from cerebro-spinal meningitis, or spotted fever. Spotted fever consists of inflammation of the membranes of the brain and of the spinal cord. It id sometimes called the '"black sickness." It often becomes epidemic. At times children mostly are attacked; at others, adults mostly are the sufferers. There are usually mottlings of the skin of a dark purplish colour of an oval shape, and varying in diameter from i a quarter to half-an-ineh. The disease, it | is generally believed, is caused by a specific microbe. The death-rate in epidemics I varies from 40 to 80 pel cent. At about | i his period last year 456 deaths occurred in ; New York from the disease within a yery ; short period. In May last several cases oc--1 curved in Now South Vales.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12833, 5 April 1905, Page 5
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