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Show ANTI-MENINGITIS SERUM NOW GENERALLY ACCEPTED New York, Feb. 13. Tho Rockefeller Rockefel-ler lustltuto for Medical Research nn-uounced nn-uounced today that the effectiveness of anti-meningitis scrum had been generally accepted by medical authorities authori-ties throughout tho world and that the new remedy had taken Its placo with vaccine and diphtheria anti-toxin "as an improved agency for the protection of public health " The occasion for tills announcement was the notice given by the institution institu-tion that hereafter it would discontinue discon-tinue free distribution of the serum, which hns been carried on since Its discovery aud devote the funds to other lines of investigation. The Now York city board of health has undertaken the production or the Lew serum and for a short time will supply urgent requests from outside the state. In this city tho board will desigato stations whero tho remedy will he kept always on hand. The Rockefeller Institute says that by the early use of the sorum the death rate from cerobro-splnnl meningitis has been reduced twc-thlrds. |