The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-27
MIND LOST AFTER
 HER VACCINATION
Mother of Annie O'ConneIl Writes from
 Ireland Her Belief in the Canse.
GIRL LEFT HOME PERFECTLY WELL

' New Haven. Sept 27.-The case of Miss Annie O'Connell, the handsome young Irish domestic who was taken to the New Haven hospital from a train arriving from New York on August Il last in a speechless condi- tion, and who was subsequently, and still is unable to give an account of herself clearly, seems to be one that attention because of the fact that her family now believes that her condi- tion is due to the injection of poison vaccine virus into her blood while she try from Ireland. It is possible that medical experts may take up the mat ter and make an investigation of it. The case of Miss O'Connen is one that attracted attention from the first She arrived here on an afternoon train from New York. having been sent here by her employer. Mrs. Davis (for- merly of this city and now of Brook lyn, N. Y.), because she was i'll. She was ticketed to the house of her aunt. Mrs. Hannah O'Connor, at 523 EaSt street. this city.
 Failing to be able to give her name or any account of herself. upon ar rival here she was transferred to the New Haven hospital where her case was diagnosed by Drs. Stewart and
 
 This means a form of insanity from which there is much difficulty of re- covering. She is now at the home of her aunt in East street, and while she has improved somewhat she is still very far from well. She is now being at tended by Dr. Mcclure. All of her acquaintances here have been at a loss to account for her peculiar con dition, as she is still unable to con- verse intelligently. She is on record in the annals of the hospital as a woman who Las lost her mind. It was supposed at the time she arrived here that she was suffering from overheating.
 The following letter to the Journal Courier. from her mother, Mrs. Cath erine OConnell, of Cloghroe, Innisca- ra. County Cork. Ireland. bearing to throw some light upon the girls peculiar condition. Mrs. O'ConnelPs s letter says among other things:
 ''To the Editor of the Journal Courier:
 Sir: Please publish the cause of the loss of my daughters memory daughter left her home in Ireland on the 14th of last April she was as fine a type of an Irish girl as any one conld wish to fay eyes on.
 She graduated from a civil service college, and, as the bishop of the dio- cese stated. she was credit to the parish and the parents that reared her, and a true type of her illustrious Irish name. l never know her to be @ day i'll in her life. She had a sound and healthy constitution, but the treatment she received on the steamer is the cause of all of our sore trouble. With her girl chum she wrote home that she never tasted the rough and badly sup piled food on the steamer. A week be- fore she landed. the doctor on the steamer. despite the fact that he must have seen that my daughter had an abundance of the marks of vaccina- tion, insisted upon vaccinating her again, with the result that he inserted from that time to. this Annie O'Con- nell is not well.
 If I had money I. would sue the steamship company for causing such trouble and expense to all her friends. thank the latter, one and all, for my stricken daughter. Also MT. and Mrs. Davis in whose employ she was
 As the natron at the New Haven railroad station stated. she was indeed a domestic of the upper class.
 MRS. CATHERINE O'CONNELL.' .''
 At the hospital last night it was stated that there was nothing to indi- cate what the matter was with the girl and that no diagnosis of the case other than that quoted at the begin ming of this article had been made.
 Mrs. OConnor was very reluctant to talk about the case last night. She said that the physicians who had been connected with the case had told her that the vaccination had nothing to do with it. She shrank from publicity in the matter, because she did not feel she ought to combat the requirements of @ governmental regulation in the matter of enforced vaccination. Her niece. she said. had improved some