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Show NEW YORK IS AROUSED OVER MENINGITIS GERM Concerted Effort by Physicians Fails to Check Disease, Dis-ease, Which Is Epidemic. NEW YORK, April S.Circulars to the numbes of 5000 have been ordered by the Health department to be served on all physicians and institutions in New York, ordering reports made of every case of cerebro-spinal meningitis. This must be done by the doctors and hospital authorities under the penalty prescribed In the sanitary code, and marks a drastic step by the health board in combatting the disease which has caused 798 deaths in Greater New . Yorksince January 1. Under the new policy each case will be disinfected and if need be Isolated. At the hospitals many new cases are being received, and at every Institution that takes this class of patients there are from one to twenty-one sufferers. As before, the majority of those sick are children. Two facts which the Investigators consider of Importance have come to light. It has been found by laboratory experiments that there is a variation between the type of the so-called germs In this -epidemic and the hitherto supposed sup-posed normal type of meningitis germ. The second- discovery Is that all the ordinary animals used in laboratory work are Immune to the meningitis germs. Guinea pigs and rabbits, for instance, in-stance, show no bad effects when they are inoculated. This is true of many other animals,, and the commission is at a loss as to how an anti-toxin can be procured. Thus far, the only animals ani-mals which have been successfully Inoculated In-oculated are mice, which are too small for practical use in supplying serum. |