CLINICAL REVIEW Neonatal Meningitis Presentation and Discussion of 21 Cases

M OST cases of meningitis during in-fancy occur in the first month of life. Such neonatal meningitis has an incidence of 0.13 case per 1,000 full-term births and 2.24 cases per 1,000 premature births., Since ~~l~.er~r’s ~ 2 initial description of three fatal cases in 1895, reports from various coun-tries have been numerous. Those of recent years which have been published in English are listed in the Bibliography and are used for comparison with, and to help in, the eval-uation of our own data. Survey of Personal Cases This report describes and comments on 21 cases of neonatal meningitis treated at the Children’