Abstract
Cases of acute bacterial (excluding tuberculous) meningitis and meningococcal infection, occurring in children under 10 years of age in the North-West Metropolitan region between 1969 and 1973 have been studied retrospectively by case-note review. The risk of having an acute meningococcal infection was estimated to be 1 in 1090, and that of having an attack of hæmophilus meningitis to be 1 in 1500, by the age of 10 years. The case-fatality rates for meningococcal infection, hæmophilus meningitis, and pneumococcal meningitis were 10·9%, 5·7%, and 16·4% respectively. Meningitis was not diagnosed in life in 26 of 94 fatal cases (28%).
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