Telegram-herald., 1889-07-13

1Ae Singular ard aun2m4bls d-Ssass
"a sbe f-nsay u Peter Nesk ST. coz
t42es q excite Interest Ia the naealeAl
protess.oa, 4a stl t&fnes tAe2f skla
ald learning bota II giving i nAme
and Ia treating i. DF. hozssna. how
ever Aoe Is la charge u the czsss. let
na9fe eue0uFaged Yesterday and ex-
pressed h.mse1 as hopeful ~ SAVING
toe tge saHIxhg children. fnelT con
diti0n mueh the same a. i wSs, and
oldy ta8e wia develop the extent -
whlel iac dlSezse Hli run. There =,
h0wes1r, 10 Improvement, AID tie
httle oaes sufler IS much as
ever. Yesterday morning Or. Szan-
ders, the health ottioeT, who
las tad large expenences and . 9uns
iamli4E Nltn IL disease found among
f0felg aefs, visited the h0uss nlgh Mr.
CaTsli. leak OF the hoard, and both Of
the.n NeTe at a lose - name the
trouble. Both of them. however,
agreed that there aas 10 CssUse tor
alarm ard that it WAS uot contagious
disease. ia Saunders thought i WAS
the fe>nit OF the measles that the chill
dFeA had suffered Nth and the neglect
mat followed. Their food had been
insufficient and not Of tile proper
aualty, and perhaps there vas some
hereditary ulnt IA the blood that
neither - the parents were responsible
Tor, and Il broke out at this time when
Il had the best chance, owing 10 the
weakened and impoverished condition
OF tie children. Or. Saunders also said
that the small, close, unycntllatcd and
almost sutiocating rooms IN which the
children were kept, was enough, II
there MAS no other reason, Tor ma king
them sack and 20 bring out all OF the
bad that VAS ia them. The room IN
which the two living children are kept
Is not more than five by ten, and has
nut one tiny window through which
little, II any, pure ar can penetrate.
Doctor Saunders WAS without author
lty IN the matter, the cases being fully
halt a mile beyond the eastern bound
airy OF the city, but his advice 10 the
undertaken was 10 bury the dead child
as soon rs possible and permit of no
gathering OF people AT the funeral, and
such was the course pursued. The
nclghborng child of Mr.. Banner
mas, up 10 this time, remained rs II
was 1T yesterdays writing, and no
change for the worse is anticipated.
Dr. kOzcma sand last night that the
disease was what ne originally took IL
TO be, 'sangreneoas orysipeias." When
questioned rs TO its contagious charac-
ter, he simply said that he was in
doubt, and would advise people to keep
away from IL for the present
DIR. Wood, who, with other phvsi-
Clans, were called into consultation
and examined the case, was seen and
was quite indignant at the statement
that lac could not name the disease,
and declared that he had named ii i'm
the first place as malignant eczema,
and 1T the request of the reporter
wrote his opinion OF the cases as fol
lows:
Eczema Malignans-a malignant
eczema, n disease of faulty nutrition;
IN these cases superInduced by measles,
with improper quantity and quality of
food" The improper food was first
thought OF 10y DR.. Rozema, who care
fully investigated the subject and
found that the family had eaten no
pork ut all for Il long time and lived
simply on potatoes and the cheap beef
bought from peddIing wagons. 1t may
be that this meat was unfit for use,
and, II so, 1t furnishes the only clew to
the cause of the trouble.
Both OF the parents have always
been healthy, and are totally free from
any evidences OF scrOfula or other
disease, but the father mas
recently had the measles, and is still
bearing the marks.
a number "a physicians, who read the
TELEGRAM-HEEALD's article YESTERDAY |
we're seen, and were completely |
nystIiied ut the strange malady. and |
none of them would say more than |
hat 1t was something entirely new To |
hem, and refused even to say whether |
I was contagious or not, but all advised |
he utmost caution.