Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-16
vOGEL|US GIRLS
DEATH BATTLES
PAsTEUR EXPERTS
Institute and Family Probing
Treatment Given Young Glen
Ridge Patient.

Eminent medical men and Pasteur
specialists are deeply interested in the
death of +irginia E. Vogelius, aged Ii.
of Glen Ridge. who died of spinal mem
ingitis after having taken the Pasteur
treatment at the New York institute.
That hundreds of thousands of pa
tients nave been given the treatment
and that none have contracted menin-
gifts from it Is the statement made by
Or. Rousseau, superintendent of the
Pasteur Institute at New York, today.
lie had never heard of sucn a case,
and at the institute alone 5000 per-
sons have been treated. He did not be-
lieve that the afniction was caused by
the treatment, and said that he would
not only conduct a minute investigation
into the case, but would assist others
and welcome any investigation of the
institution which might Throw any
light on the matter.
II, through any chance, the coinplica-
ton was the result Of the serum in
jected at the institute, it is the first
case on record since the discovery of
the rabies cure, and no efforts will be
opcttCo III oeStii5 LA AtiS ~ !
source. Spinal fiuid from the girls
body has been drawn off and some sent
to Dr.. Rousseau, who will make an ex-
amination. Examinations win also be
made of the fluid by a chemist for the
bereaved family and by DR.. w. II.
| White, the family physician.
we will have to overhaul the entire
work. aid Dr. Rousseau today, IF 1t
L. fo,,n1 fhat 4I,a ~ Uffic ic raoa-
| able 10 the serum or her treatment
here. / firmly believe that the investi-
cation will show that it was caused by
other influences. but will await the re-
suit of the Investigations to be %
WINGED on this point, and will leave no
stone unturned to probe the matter to
the bottom. l am not afraid of an
investigation and / do not say that the
meningitis was not caused by the treat
ment here because Of being connected
with the institute, but l cannot con-
ceive Of such a thing happening at a
properly conducted Pasteur institute.
nor did l ever hear OF such q thing"
The family Of the girl believes that
the treatment caused the aiiment which
resulted in Virginia's death, and DIV.
H. White, DR.. James T. Hannah, u
Montclair; DIR. Shoup n DR.. Alfred
Sully, of New York, who were in con-
sultation over the girls condition, will
not say that the meningitis came from
the serum, but non will say that 1t
could not have been thus caused.
1t is generally believed by the Pasteur
Institute physicians and others that the
examination of the spinal fluid will
show how the disease developed.
The case originated through a pet
| spaniel Of the family becoming i'll and
dying OF rabies. 1t did not bite any OF
the members of the family, but it licked
their hands, and On the advice of the
family physician, DIR. White, Mrs.
vogelius and her six children took he
Pasteur treatment. No iH-effects were
experienced by any other of the pa
tients. who were discharged and pro-
| nounced but of danger two weeks ago.
| Virginia wac taken sick last Thursday.
and at first was thought to be suffering
from ~biliousness. Getting worse, how
ever, her condition was diagnosed as
spinal meningitis, and sinking rapidly
she died.
Pasteur specialists are deeply inter-
ested in the investigation, as they say
that while trouble OF a tenn
porary nature is sometimes felt as a
result of the treatment, a. case of
meningitis is inconceivable and I'M
| heard OF.