The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-06
The LIST CROWS.
-Four Mere Victims Of Infantils
Paralysis.
Three New Counties Visited by
the Disease.
EXPERIMENTS BEGIN
DR.. CrumbiRe Ships Monkeys to
University Hospital.
Samples From Victim Inoculat-
cd in Animals.

The deadly infantile paralysis which
has baff1ed all medical knowledge OF
this age and has finally found a tenn
porary field in Kansas for its horrible
ravages, has claimed seven more VIC
Tins resulting In four deaths
DR.. Crumbine. of the state board
of health, has just received word OF
three deaths in Phillips county sup
posed to have been caused by infantile
paralysis, another death of case in
cases raging in Sharon Springs OF
Sherman county and another case in
Junction City of Riley county.
With all of these reports on hand
health physicians are travelling over
the state under the orders of Secre-
tary Crumbine and every attempt
known to the medical world is being
made to stamp out the dreaded disease.
The cases in Riley, Sherman and Phil
lips counties are entirely new and
make a total of seven counties in the
state touched by the deathly hand OF
infantile paralysis.
Two Dead at Burlingame.
DR.. Crumbine has just returned from
Burlingame where two cases were re-
ported yesterday. One of them died at
once and the other victim died last
night. In this little town there have
been two cases and two deaths. The
deaths from Phillips county came quick
in time. The patients in Riley and
Sherman counties are still living and
every aid possible is being rushed to
them.
The result of the offer of Governor
Stubs to donate half of his contingent
fund and the decision of the state
board of health to use every cent of
their emergency fund for the purpose
of stamping out infantile paralysis, has
given a great impetus to the work and
DR.. Crumbine returned last night from
the state university medical hospital
at Roseda1e where he took specimens
extracted from the. spinal column of the
dead patient at Burlingame.
VIII Use Monkeys.
D.. Crunibine procured two monkeys
az Kansas City and they were shipped
to the state hospital at Rosedale at
once. The medical force under the
supervision of the state board will in
noculate this extraction from the vic
tim of paralysis, into the bodies of the
monkeys and then the process of ac-
ton will be watched. The hospital has
rabbits, geunia pigs and
the like for such purposes but the
monkey is the nearest approach to the
human being and the infantile para
lysis germs will, be tested on this ami
NAL.
with the action of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Palmer OF B1rlingame, In allow
ing the doctor to hold a post mortem
over the body of their little girl. This
is always hard matter for parents to
allow but when they were informed
by DIR. Crumbine that the extractions
from the spinal column Of the little
girl was for the help of humanity they
submitted quickly to the operation.
The fatalities among the adults in
infantfle paralysis are still mystery
among the physicians. Every adult
who has taken the disease has died
within "a hours but the disease does
not seem to claim adults as a rule.
All of the late cases have been among
the infants and have either resulted
in death or the loss of parts of the
body.
The next half dozen cases reported
over the state will be looked after at
once by DR.. Crumbine and If the par
ents of the children are willing the in
fants will be removed to the hospital
at Rosedale and their cases studied as
The cure is made.