EPIDEMIC CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION. The objects which led to the investigation of which this report is the outcome were: 1, to ascertain whether true epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis existed in the city of Chicago, and 2, to trace if possible its origin and the avenues by which it spread. In regard to the first of these objects, it was soon discovered that there was a greater prevalence of the disease than was generally supposed, and enough data were collected, which we hope are of sufficient interest to the general practitioner, to excuse the writer for encroaching on those particulars of the disease which, strictly speaking, do not perhaps belong to the territory of the sanitarian. Chicago has for a number of years fortunately escaped the ravages of a disease which has been in a constantly increasing number of instances prevalent throughout a large part of the country, particularly in its eastern portion. There is