The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-12
TAYLOR BOY IS
DEAD AS RESULT
OF MENINGITIS
disease Sa d to Be TIaumatic Menin.
gifts and Non.Com.
muaicable.
PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN
House to be Fun sated-Fami.y to
Be Moved to Pest House and
Articles Burned.
PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN

| Lucirs Tay Or, the l0-year. old ne
lgro boy, affl cted with spinal menin.
fgitis died at his homo 423 Twelfth
street last night at 7:30 o'clock.
He will be bur cd early this morn.
ling.
The remaining members Of the
Taylor family, consisting Of Ave per-
sons will be thoroughly fumigated
Immediately and removed to the city
detention pest houss where they
they will be kept under close sur
veiliancc until such time as the
physicians deem it entirely safe for
them to return to their hahitation.
The Taylor boy died Of traumatic
meningitis, non-infectious form Of
the disease as the result Of fall
received in November while riding
n grocery delivery wagon. In fall
ing out Of the wagon the rear wheel
passed over the body which the
physicians think produced the trau.
matte men 'ngitis which is non.com.
mun;cable in character.
This diagnosis is based upon
statements made to the physicians
Iby the mother Of the boy and not
through any mioroscopical exanlina.
ton so far made. as it requires
twenty-four hours to secure cultures
which will produce good results in q
meteorological! analysis.
The detention of the family at the
pest house, the Immigration of their
persons, and the house itself, which
will be thorough, and the destru,-,
ton by fire Of everything than can
possibly carry infect on, is a meas
ure of precaution the local board Of
health viii take in order to assure
the public that no danger exists.
| On account of the inclement
weather and the rapidly falling con-
dition of the boy. neither he. nor
none of tho Taylor family were
moved yesterday to the pest house
as ordered by the board of health
Friday evening.
Two policemen maintained, all
might and day rigid quarantine
about the house, permitting neither
ingress or egress to the premises.
This quarantine will be main
tanned today, and until the family
has been moved the house fumigated
with formaldebydc. and the infec-
tious articles SIstroyed by fire..
No Charge For Certificates.
Dr. Frank Fitzgerald, health Off
Ger of Cairo, can be found at head
quarters all day and he will cheer
fully issue certificates to those who
can satisfactorily identify them
selves to him as not coming from in
feetcd districts.
| There will be no charge attached
70 making out these certificates.
Favors Strict Sanitation.
The following letter from Chief
Surgeon DR.. G. G. Dowdall of the
Illinois Central under date OF Jan.
9, 1913, to ]. j. Gaven White
division superintendent of the I. c.,
at Carbondale, viii prove of interest
to Cairoites insofar as 1t relates to
sanitary measures that should be in
dividually adopted as the most eff
feetive preventative iu all diseases
'In regard to the outbreak Of
spinal meningitis at Gale, Illinois,
and few other PAGES along our
lines, will say, for your information,
that there seems TO be an unneces-
sary fear in some localities. A very
exhaustive work has been done by
the United States publ ic health and
marine service in regard to investi-
eating the cause of this disease, and
the source of contagion by which 1t
is carried. Their conclusions, which
have been presented to the medical
profession and the people generally,
are that there is no necessity for
quarantine being established to pre-
vent the spread of this disease. The
essential thing Is to look after the
sanitary conditions of the places 10
which we live, clean up and keep
c'ean. our houses and surroundings.
Also the general health Of the in