Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-07-14
LOCKJAW STAYS MANY.
Twelve Small Boys Dead In New York
and Vicinity.
SEQUELS TO JULY FOURTH.
Many Theories Given Regarding the
Prevalence of the Dread Malady,
One Doctor Saying GunpOyv-
der Contains Germs.

New York. judy 14.-Two more denths
from lockjaw have occurred in this city
William McNulty is dead in the j. Hood
Wright hospital, Joseph Levinsly is
dead in Bellevue hospital. This brings
the list of victims in New York and
vicinity since July 1 up to 12
The dead are: Lionel Briggs, choir
boy. Kearney, y. j., died in St Barna-
bas' hospital, Newark. n. j.: Harold
Sidney Clark, Bloomfield; Louis Du-
gilio, 10 years, Danbury, Conn; Oscar
Joseph Espaumberger, 8 years old,
OF S41 East One Hundred and Thirty
seventh street; Justice OF the Peace
Grotsky, Passnic, y. j.; John Indorf, 10
years old, of SAT Enst One Hundred and
Thirty fifth street; John Knabie, II
years old, of 4S7 Brook avenue; Horace
IL. Lenhcr, II years old, Elizabeth;
Joseph Lcvinsky, Is years old. of 20
Avenue ID, operated on at Bellevue hos
pital: - Mclaughlin, 10 years DID,
of G44 Tenth avenue, died in Roosevelt
hospital: William McNulty, ~ years
old, OF 216 West One Hundred and
Fifteenth street; Stanley X. Pierson,
II years old, Montclair. n. ].
There are three other victims whose
condition is serious. The names are:
Charles Roth. II years old, of G13 Eagle
avenue; ..oscnE Reinberg. Ala West
Fiftieth street. dying in Roosevelt hos
pital; Elller Weston, IS years old,
Newark
Operations Vain.
In each of the fatal cases the surgeons
opened the skull and injected antitoxin
directly into the brain in last desperate
affnrt to thn knx'r lifn Hb;c
only done when it was evident that the
case was hopeless. The effort failed, and
each victim died in terrible agony.
The extraordinary prevalence of lock-
jaw cases at present, making it seem rs
if the vicinity is afflicted by an epidemic,
is puzzlng the DOCTORS The first ren-
sonable explanation of this has just been
given. 1t is that damp weather and sud
den changes of temperature, such as
have recently prevailed, are especially
favorable to the development of the
disease. This. taken with the larger
number Of wounds this year from Fourth
of July accidents. is, at least, according
to some physicians, one of the principal
causes.
DR.. John A. Irwin of II West Twenty
ninth street who has had much expert
tlCt WIFI ttldllUS Ill lHp tropics, says
that it usually developes in between )
and IL days after a wound is received,
and the wounds received on July are
now producing their effects.
1.-The death rate is higher in damp
climates when there are sudden changes
between the temperature of noon and
night than in dlier climates DR.. Irwin
says. "The sudden changes we h'~e
had here of late have furnished just .e
right climatic conditons.'
Other doctors suggest that the mn
usually dry spring has been favorable
to the propagation of the lockjaw germ
and to it's being carried everywhere in
the dust of the atmosphere ready to get
into the slightest wound.
An Oswego doctors hypothesis is that
the germs are contained in gunpowder,
and that this is the reason for lockiaw
following so many gunShot wounds