The Washington herald., 1914-02-14
ORPHANS USED
FOR VIV|SECTION
FoundIings and Charity Pa
tients in N. Y. Hospitals
Experimental Upon.
GIVEN VILE DISEASES
Rockefeller Institute Surgeons lnoc-
culate Tots with Germs of Plague.
Many Cases Are Uncovered.

New York, Feb. 13.-Foundlings. or
phans, and charity patients of the public
hospitals and institutions of New York
City have been supplied to DIR. Hideyo
Noguchi. of the Rockefeller Institute. and
other medical research surgeons as sub
jects for vivisection experiments, accord
ing to facts uncovered today.
Michael Joseph Whitty, of the Amerf-
can Institute Of Social Service. charges
that humans have been inoculated with
germs OF a vile disease and other serums
at the Rockefeller Institute and at hos
pitais owned and supported by the tax
payers Of New York City.
Names Of physicians and hospitals are
cited and the charges are backed by Of
fetal reports signed by DR.. Noguchi and
other scientific experts.
Inoculated 1000 Children.
Here are some of the concrete evil
dences of the use Of. human beings a.
subjects for scientific experiments:
l. DR.. Lemmet Holt, professor OF dis
eases of children in the college of physi-
clans and surgeons. Columbia Univer-
sity, applied tuberculin tests to LOU
Young children. who were ward patients
in the babies hospital.
VERY few of the children" DR.. Holt
writes over his own signature, were
over three years VI decp hhc AAeSS&A~s
being under two years
Summing up the result of these ex-
periments, DR.. Holt said:
dying children or those who were ex-
tremely sick did not, as a rule. react to
any of the tests"
q Two children, among many who
were subjected to the same tests, do
veloped the vilest of all contagious
diseases, after leaving Willard Parker
inn
with a serum as an experiment.
"Tests Are Harmless"
3. Dr. Martin Cohen, OF Harlem Hos
pital, Randalls Island Asylum, and the
New York Opthalmic and Aural 1nsti-
tute, used DR.. Noguchfs 'leutin emui-
sion." which is the extract OF the germs
of the most dreaded Of CONTAGIOUS
diseases, on fifty patients suffering from
minor ailments. In his report. DR.. Cohen
says: Thus far the test has been ab-
solutely harmless in 40 cases which were
innoculated during the last five months !"
4. DR.. Noguchi used. in a series of SIM
liar experiments, 146 healthy persons
part Of whom were children between the
ages of two and eighteen. He reports
that these tests were made at different
hospitals and dispensaries with the CO.
operation of the physicians in charge"
IN our nOSplIdls dIlO Quiet
public institutions" said Mr., Witty,
ARE being used by the physicians for
experiments by innoculation Of vaccines
serums, &C., which have nothing what
ever to do with the disease or illness
from which they were suffering. The
victims of these experiments do not
know what Is being done to them, and
the consent of the parents and guardians
of the children who are charity patients
is not asked
Human beings have been innoculated
with serums which have added much to
their sufferings, and sometimes resulted
in permanent injury. and which have
had no relation to their particular illness.
They have been sprayed in the throat or
nose. or made to breathe the poisons Of
diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, and
consumption. They have been innocu-
lated with virus of foot and mouth dis
case and made to inhale the breath of
scarlet fever patients"