Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1930, Page 6

K6 - * INDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. €, JANUARY 19. 1930—PART s PSITACLSSGERM | FOUNDIN PARROT tient’s Bird Reveals Causa- f tive Organism. By the Assoclated Fress, CHICAGO, Jauuary 18.—Dr. Lloyd Arnold, University of Tllinols bacteriolo- gist, apnounced today he had found the germ causing psittacosis in the body of a parrot owned by Mrs. Vearle Whitson- of Westmont, 1ll., who lles serlously 1ll, & suspecled viclim of par- Tat's fever. Pr, Arnold undertook the postmor- tem examination of ,the bird several days ago after the woman's symp- + toms were pronounced similar to those | of psittacosis, the disease which has caused several deaths in Eastern citles Tecently. ‘The candition of Mrs. Whitson was reported somewhat improved today Dr. Arnold said the fever but that she had become Board of | U,"S. AUTHORITIES CONFER. Means of Ingreasing Measures Against Psittacosis Planned. By the Associated Press Faderal health authorities conferred yesterday o consider means of rein- fareing measures taken thus far to pre- vent.further spread of the rare disease parrot's fever, or psittacosis. They estimated the malady had stricken at least 85, and proven fatal to elght per- sons. After several days of quiescence, the disease apparently has struck again, and further away than ever from An- ., where the first cases came attention early this month. ©One death and six illnesses in Los Angeles County, GRlif., were attributed | today to the strange fever. Officials | have laid down a 60-day embargo on | importation of.all South American wild | anlmal and bird life through ihe port of San Pedro, Calif. Measures Against Birds. { sur! Gen. Cumming said several days | ago that he was considering the recom- mendation of Federal measures against | the birds that are beliéved to be vir-| tually the oply source of communica- #ion to nfan. After a conference with | Officials of the Biological Survey 6f the | Agriculture Department, however, Pub- | fic Health Service officers said they did not contemplate requesting an embarge immediately. Public. health officials conferred again | yesterday, and later sald they consid- | ered means of renewing effarts against | the disease, but they refrained from further_explanation. § Dr. Chpries Armstrong, in charge of & national study of the ouibreak, said his own check showed 40 “well established” | cases and 4 others in which there was | “glight doubt” as to diagnesis. He | placed the dead at eight. | Experiments Are Begun. He began a series of experiments in the hygienic laboratory yesterday look- ing toward isolation of the organism | causing the ilingss both in parrots a in human beings. It was said that| efforts probably would be made later to_deveiop a serum for the disease. | With teports concerning the malady stili-coming in, Federal officials were yet seanning press reports of new cases. One reported late today was from Chi- cago, where Dr. Lloyd Arnald, Univer- sity of Tllinois bacteriologist, said he had found _"irn he. called the psittacosis | _ germ i the body of a parrot belonging 1o Mta. Vearle Whitson of Westmont, | 0% Mzs. Whitson 1s ill ‘and believed to be_suffering from the fever. Until ‘the present outbreak, officials said, the disease was so rare in the United States: that neither opportunity nor need for development of a specific treatment .had been found. | CALIFORNIA MAN STRICKEN. Brother-in-Law of Cook on §hip From Sonth America Has Psittacosis. SAN PEDRO, Calif., Janugry 18 (#).— Physicians here today diagnosed the {liness of Edward Johansen, 41, s long- £horeman, as psittacosis, or “parrof’s | disease.” Johansen was stricken last Sunday. He said 8 brother-in-law, John Santos, jcook on_a ship, which recently gom- | pleted. & South Americgn tour, had Lwven him two parrots a week before | Christmas. One of the parrots died the night Johansen received it and the other died two weeks later. Mme. Galli-Curci to Quit Stage. NEW YORK. January 1§ (4)— egers for Mme. Amelita Galli-Curcl, | Metropolitan - ©pera star. annotinced | yesterday she would retire from the operatic stage at the close of the pres- | ent-season and devote her time in the future to concert work. .| laFy of the Velerans of Forelgn Wars, °I' | whe Is coming here to officlate at the Hotel, when the ¥l.ginia State Soclety discussed plans for the restoration of and national presigent of the Robert E. 1 lustalling Officer I MRS, BESSIE HANKEN, ational presi of the Ladies’ Auxil- installation of thé auxiliary officers of ict of Columbis Department. Iso represent the organization st the women's patriotic conference on national defense. Y REBEL YELL ENLIVENS LEE-JACKSON BALL Progress of Memorial Foundation Toward Restoration Is Told. The old rebel yell shrilled by a remnant band in faded ey, stirvingly | invoked the memory of the great Con- federate leader Friday night at the an- nual Tee-Jackson ball in the Willard Robert E. Lee's boyhood home. Mrs. Charles D. Lanier, daughter-in- law of Sydney Lanier, Southérn poet, Lee Memorinl Foundation, reviewed the camppign sctivily of the foundation, which is raising funds for the projected restoration of Stratford-on-the-Potomac, angestral estale of the Lee family. The foundation campuign, with & contribu- tion goal of $400,000, has glready raised $50,000, Mrs. Lanfer said. Seated in 3 box graped with. Con- fedeyale flags, » group of Civil War velergus, sale survivors of Camp 171, U. €. V., shared the evening program. Miss Bell Perkins. a cousin of Robert E. 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