The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-29

Objection No. mo connecting link be-
tween anomalous cases.-Eya Duncar.s'
condition can be traced TO contamination
in Beaumont with the Lovejoy case. which,
10 my mind, was yellow fever While
many physicians contend that both cases
were aggravated malaria, the preponder-
ence OF testimony Is against such dag
nosls Malaria OF such an aggravated
| type never developes in the cities, IL is
a low, marshy swamp disease. and the oc-
| currence OF such cases elsewhere es-
pecialiy when yellow fever Infection Is
possible, Is very grave and ominous indi-
cation. l have practiced several years In
| Houston and two years in Charity hospital
| New Orleans, where all varieties OF ma
aria were observed, and | have never
seen case of malarial hematuria origi
nate in either city. Furthermore, ma
larial hematuria is extremely rare in
the negro race; in fact. | have questioned
several physicians on the subject and they
could not recall such an occurrence.
| we'll known physician in Houston had
under his charge several anomalous cases
! in one family. They were exceedingly
| suspicious, and albumin was in abund-
ance, 407. Later this physician developed
an anomalous case characteristic facies,
hemorrhages from bowels and suppressed
albumlnous urine.
Another instance-A young man nurses
tWo u MS liiSuuS. ueSe IIleu0S present
peculiar and suspicious symptoms; so
much so that their physician tells them
that II any yellow fever is in town they
have it. Now a few days later the young
man who nurses became sick, and was
jamndiced and his urine was full of anu-
min.
Enough has been shown that the ano-
malous cases could be traced, aud that the
connecting links in many cases were quite
evident.
Objection No. Low mortality rate.
The death rate during thu late epidemic
was at New Orleans 1886 per cent; at
Mobile. 1913 per cent; at Biloxi, as per
cent; at Edwards, 5.3 per cent; at Scran-
ton, SO per cent. In Houston from the
LIST CT October, 1896, to the 18Th of Mo-
yember, 1896, there were 90 deaths; during
the same period of 1897 there were 100
Geaths--an increase of 33 IL per cent or
30 deaths.
A study OF the mortuary table
shows us that senility has bsen quite
fatal disease this fall. Eleven deaths were
ascribed to the horrible malady, six OF
which were not over 60 years of age. Dur
ing 1896 FIVE died from senility. fouY OF
which were more than n years of age.
According to death certificates, there were
fve dtaths from dengue eleven from
enteritis and gaStrltis, ten from fever. one
from meningitis AID five from kidney
diseases Furthermore TO my personal
knowledge, man was sick three days and
jaundiced fever subsidized, collapse oc-
curred and death resulted, the certificate
Of which was heart disease. In another
case man was sick few days, iaundiced
and ALBUMIN in urine A few hours be-
fore death black vomit was noticed. Ths
deceaseds certificate wac signed gastric
Now gentlemen, listen TO the authorities
in regard to the mortality OF dengue. Fos-
ter says IL is provefbiaily non fatal;
Matas writes that in four epidsmics out
CT eleven. notwithstanding the thousands
OF victims not one person was recorded
as having succumbcd 10 the disease; in the
other seven but four deaths-at the fur
tbest a total OF FIVE in the seven cpl |
denies. Holiday, never fatal.
While with some reason II can be con-
tended that the extremes c! life die from
dengue, IL is against ali authority 70 state
that people between 10 and ~ years OF age
die from the disease, ESPECIALLY when all
the symptoms OF yeiiow fever are present. |
and when Infection is probable To my |
mind II would require juggler OF facts |
, eontortionist Is phraseoogy to reconcile |
he mortality rate with the literature on |
ieneue.
Now. for the sake OF argument. | will |
,dmlt that ten OF the thirty deaths were |
iue 10 dengne which Is FIVE more than the |
Ioial mortality OF eleven epidemics, and |
We have twenty deaths un9ccounted Tor.
Taking the mortality at Edwards as an 1
,yerage over 100 cases of yellow fever |
,ouId have existed without producing more |
han the twenty deaths announced for. |
yellow fever always is mild |
II the out and gradually increases in ma
ienancy If climatic conditions are favora-
lie. hut Fortunately fer us u appeared in
nsdfalI and frost soon checked its raw I
4hr.c - iAr ~ Txr.
ans case frat occurred.
rengus is one OF the few ds-ares that
las no known pathological anatomy be
ause they never die from the disease aud 1