Bacterial meningitis--a five year review 1975--1979.

In a five year period 142 cases of bacterial meningitis were reported, of which 50 per cent were children under the age of four years and a third of the children were neonates. The commonest organism isolated was Streptococcus pneumoniae, there being 28 cases. The incidence of Klebsiella organism causing meningitis has been on the increase, and 20 cases were reported within this period. There has been a change in pattern of neonatal meningitis, with group B streptococcal infection predominating over the gram negatives.