BUBONIC PLAGUE
EFFECTIVE SERUM TREATMENT (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 17. Last month the Minister of Health, the Hon. C. J. Parr, observed in a summary of information which he received from Australia, that remarkable results had attended the use of a new plague serum in Sydney. There had been only one death out of thirteen patients in New South Wales, which was much lower than the plague death rate in Queensland. The Minister has now received some particulars from the Director-General of Health at Sydney, Dr. Armstrong. The serum was the discovery of Dr. Burton Bradley in the Bacteriological Institute of Australia. It has been used extensively in Sydney with results which Dr. Armstrong considers to be excellent. Of 22 patients treated eighteen recovered from plague, and three who died never had a chance. One came under the serum treat-/ ment five days after the beginning of the illness, one was moribund on admission to the hospital, and one was 83 years of age. In every ordinary case it appear that the serum has been effective.
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Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 6
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