SPORADIC MENINGOCOCCUS MENINGITIS

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Abstract
The curative value of specific serum in the treatment of sporadic meningococcus meningitis in infancy and early childhood has been evident for many years. Prior to the introduction of serum therapy, the mortality of the disease in the first year of life approached 100 per cent. In infants under 1 year of age treated by us with serum, recovery occurred in approximately 50 per cent. In children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 85 per cent recovered. The later growth and development of these children with apparent complete recovery from their acute infection is of interest and of considerable importance. We have observed forty-four such cases (excepting two patients who died in the first year after discharge from the hospital) over a period varying from one to ten years, and these form the basis of our report. In ninety-seven patients with meningococcus meningitis treated with serum at the

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