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Show TOWNS WROUGHT UP Casos of Spinal Meningitis at Morgan and Croyden. Little Morgan, which during the last few weeks has been a most anxious little burg, has now the Stale sanitary inspector's word thnt its suspicions were correct and that the drcarl cerebrospinal cerebro-spinal meningitis was iu its midst. Dr. Clark, after nn investigation, has reported re-ported that these cases in Morgan, two with one death, were the cercbro-spinnl variety, in Croyden, another town menaced b" the epidemic, he found two other cases with, however, no fatal results. re-sults. The doctor lost no tinJo in isolating isolat-ing the cases and thoroughly fumigating fumigat-ing the houses and infected places, Dr Clark urged upon the townspeople Uh use of the treatment now being used nox vomica and whiskey. Tho cases reported were of the chronic chron-ic variety, running from two to five wt-cks, and the two little towns arc much wrong hi up. As the precautions taken have been most; strict, and no new cases have manifested themselves, :t is not expected that there will be anv further contagion. |