Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, photographs, charts and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar abscess; tremor ataxia; ischaemic brainstem lesions; internal hydrocephalus; apnoea; and pyogenic meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.