The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-30
THREE COLLEGES HIT BY DISEASE Schod at LaCrange is the Latest. PACKING HOUSES TO BLAME Ssuthern Sln1sats Ate of Impure
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PACKING HOUSES TO BLAME

Atlanta. Ga. Oct. 29.--with one Southern college closed. the student body of another all but depleted. and the work of a third seriously impair ed by the simultaneous appearance in these institutions of strange malady, apparently Of an epidemic nature. which for a time baffied physicians. but which Is now in two of these schools, at least declared to be pto- maine poisoning. due to the eating of impure Western meats, serious sit- uation fias developed for the consider ation of the Federal and State pure food authorities.
 This announcement was made here tonight In connection with the Illness of the more than forty cadets at the Georgia Military Academy. at College Park. eight miles from Atlanta, the majority of whom were yesterday rush. ed to Atlanta hospitals seriously i'll.
 The other schools affected are the LaGrange Female College. LaGrange, Ga. with 200 students. which now has left sixty students, and the Athens Fe- male College, Athens, Ala. with 160 students. which closed early in the week.
 The eating of boiled boneless ham by the cadets of the Georgia Military Academy is believed to be directly re- bpGHSiD1e TUT tuc utNtlOptnCnI ok PtO- maine poison in that institution.
 It Is suggested by an official of the military school that the diseased meats found their way from Atlanta to the other institutions affected.
 Tt is an alarming situation" he added, land calls for a vigorous in- vestigation by the authorities who have supervision over the food supplies which are shipped into Atlanta from the packing centers."
 At the Georgia Military Academy number of the cadets ate heartily of the boiled ham Saturday and Sunday. Two sons Of President Woodward were the first taken Ill. and score or more were complaining Monday morning. Tuesday forty- three were violently ill., necessitating the renewal yesterday of most of them to Atlanta hospitals. af- ter the college inarmary was filled to capacity The afflicted boys were first stricken with chills followed by Yom-' iting. with pulse low and temperature subnormal. This condition continued. with severe headaches and pains in the muscles and limbs developing on the third day.
 Five of the boys have recovered suf. ficientiy to go to their homes, while twenty five are still in local hospitals and eight in the college infirmary. Sew eral others are confined to their rooms.
 The student roll at the Military Acad- .emy shows an attendance of 165. The school will not close. the authorities believing that the present situation is we'll in hand, and are not apprehen- sive of the development of further cases of the illness.
 The temperature of the patients in the local hospitals tonight Is stated to range between 100 and 104. although the condition of no one of them Is con sldered serious.
 Reports from the college at Athens, Ala, indicate that the thirty odd young women stricken there are convalescing and that the school will resume It's work in few days.