The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1905, Page 13

“WAIT u Strange Disease. |» "MORTALITY JUMPING UP. Only 107 Deaths In All of 1903, While Last Month Alone Total Exceeded that Figure, NO ANTI-TOXIN DISCOVERY. Mot Only Little Children, but Adulté as Well, Now Victims of Mysterious Malady, The alarming spread of cerebro| epinal meningitis in the past year has) centred the attention of the medical world, So little 18 known of the e the malady, No Known Remedy. ‘The most alarming feature of the present increase of the disease is that there iv no known method of treat- ment that can be relled on, In fact there are many treatmen or less experimental, As eal solence has progressed jn ges of the disease, In the past little children have suf- fered most from the disorder when it veached @ contagious stage. Now adults, @s well are victims of its epread. 80 far it has not developed in any one ooality. Only the tenement distriots, however, are affected, and the physl- lane draw the conclusion that lack of @anitary appliances and personal neglect may have @ powoffit Influence tn dis- eeminating the germ, Increase of $00 Per Cent. i vf Brom day to day, beginning at the @utwet of the presem year, the death rate for oerebro spinal meningitis has increased 9% per cent, Board of Health inupectors have tried in vain tp find ome single quarter of the city where the death rate is highest. Their ef- forte have boon unrewarded, as the uses ate scattered over the entire area ot ‘the City—that is, Im the tenement house sections. All of the hota take cases of cera- bro spinal meningitis, but there is no one Joel on In th ay, that Ra ieee f hope 0 fealth Ungton that the ‘Hoard of 1 of Teumste on Apportionment new allow him a ee bah to Bake ‘an pa Bvening World reper fat vet akes ‘of the mor aras tic Ai 9 in tag far We are able, to do Reh ft? PB owtel iW , and if the increase ia mo longer extraordin Sead have to be employed, 9 ourselves face to fate wi th @ Dingue ine singularly virulent forme! YELLOW JACK UNDER CONTROL Dr. Reed Says American: Sani- tary Officers Have Danger of Epidemio Reduced to a Minl- mum—Delay in Supplies, Dr. Charles A, L. Reed, of Cincinnatt, @ maimber of the joint commission ap- Pointed to adjust property digputes be- ‘ween the United States and Panama, and who has just returned from the Isthmus, says sanitary conditions in Pamama are belng improved as rapidly 5 gould be expected. The delay has been Guo ty non-arnival of construction Material ordered in the United States, While there has been conaldernble yel. Yow fever on the Isthmus, Dr, Reed Saye tho health authorities apparently hed ithe attuetion will In hand when ne Ti Galle from Colon a week ago, Dr, Reed, “Colon is not Infacted,”’ ‘Everything that Intelligence energy ofn do with the limited facili. tes available {s being done to stamp Ovt the disease, The water works and @ewage system that ouffht to have been In me last December are not yet In- stalled because o: ine Bipe to the Hine Nth) Taehe Mo! to press water barrels ease-breeding centres, The rhage is belng Uapened 08 | clean and by our sanitary office: Brad af Health W Will Ask for Fund/to Investigate This 4, and Its spread has taken at J ‘a serfous aspect, that the Board of Hoalth has called upon the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to ap- ‘propriate @ small eum to enable the department to make @ special inveatl- gation Into the mysterious sources of In 198 thene were only 107 ksh inal meningitis in New York, whei Inst year ier were 1,211 deaths, Last month there were 14) deaths, and each day the mortality rate 1s increasing. In February of Inst year there were only twenty-three deaths. In more than 9 per cent, of the cases where tie diseape fully develops death results, study of Cerebro espinal meningitis it i known that (t is contagious, It Is a germ disease, and the germ ‘s believed to enter the nostrils and find shelter dn the brain, No anfl-toxin has been @iecovered that can combat th@ rava- austive # CU th to-day to an mela nln fo rare Cy ts myetenous nate | Rad AY) reat ‘There’ ‘have been just thirty-aix oases, with twelve deaths, siage July 13, when the first cage was reported,” sald Piqued ‘ 8 rhino ta © toothsome beast, in horus he puts his che: trust, He couies to grace the ie rust, And Buniers y will Tiled’ wish atraps® new aches Or Yous ot Bt Rood old tt ae ae Jingies, When Morris Jesup, “i Plerpont Mor- Wan and a few other epioures had a “Dinosaur tea" a short time ago and left the dinosaur picked to the bone in the Hall of Dinosaurs, at the Natural History Museum, they struck a barbed watt of jealousy into the bosoms of the Canadian camp, The supply of dino- auns for dinners and teas is rather Iim- ited; in tact, not to be found in every loe-box ready to serve, and despairing at dining on jufoy dinosaur steaks, the Canadians did the next beat thing" they could and billed 9 freeh-pioked rhinoc- eros for thelr annual dinner at the Hotel Astor to-nipht, Rhinocerl do rot figure regylarly on the Astor's oulsine, and the hotel at tendants became quite peevish after an- awerina eaverd! thousand queries during the past few days regarding the price per plate at which customers could ne- motiate some of the tropical 'meat. The hotel people had trouble of thelr own wetting his rhinoship Indpors with the ald of a dettick after his arrival on upper Broadway in a stone-bbat, just off the ship from Berlin, Chef Was Unhappy. The chef was anything but happy when he grappld with the prepare, tion of the rhino. In far off Mlalla, Mozambque, hard by India’s coral, strand, when the hungry villagera wish to phift from a’ vegetarian diet they Tend @ rhinocerous out of the pen and, after giving him his quietus with 2 spear, they bulld a fire under him for the ‘barbecue, The building boom has not been so keen In Mlalla's bustest sections as to Interfere with impro- viefng a broiler at any spot in that well known resort, but Broadway bon- fires are controlled exclusivaly by gas and asphalt repair gangs and the aight of a rhino being barbecued in Long. Se PIANOS AND ORGANS, Take advantage of the Great Sale of New Style Wilson Pianos $165, $1.00 Week, including stool and cover, and save from $150 to $200. || Delivered on Paymento! $5 Also the following remarkable Piano offers included in this sae Walters, . Harmony, Richardson, Burnhair— $160 Cash, / $105 easy terms, bres, Maybrick on American Prisons | In next bunday’s New York Wor'd, | firat of a series of remarkable articles | La Me) batt in rie Was re. loned after spending fift rere in Ene lish prisons, and eno has! een invest gating leading American , Prisons, LUlustrated with striking photo: | , raphe. Exchange your-old plano for a nsw one on eisy terms of $1 per week, Upon request a representative will call on you, BLOOMINGDALE BROS., ‘Third Moor, oh 2A. ewottie. are teed tht pay hilly she wi ‘been invited to qieters Key assist in dlayosing side the Taothsome Dinosaur Novelty at a Recent Vatural %, tive, on tonst.. other wtrange ants story Dinner, They Have Branched Out tn, the Freak Food Line Themselves, sent | acre aware might pull heavily on the theatre patronage to-night if allowed, | Campers want tv uo something that ‘will come up to the cr Luncheo! Umo outshine the dinner given ‘by them last November when the! down to a bear shot by Grover land, ex-Presddent and hunts A Passion for Rhino, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, who with the \Other, Wise Men believes that cating |tinno ‘Is a “ruling paission,”” be | toastmaster when the rich meat is sep- |arated from the boller-phute hide of the dupe, foamer, and ie G, iil oreside, | Bev guests have beepoken the rhino's horn, 1.98 Hore ‘v0 be used as honkers on their | All the hospitals tn the city will hold +| | thelr ambulances ready to reepond on t |the jump in antiolpation of an outbroak * ins on getting je eee 57 Years in Builiadd ESTABLISHED 188. 0&1 BAGBR'CO. in the jungle ay event, and are sald to be of such an alarming and unusual nature that thoy will not be released for publication until the guests have been corralled and the doors locked. Banquet Manager Gelll, of the Hotel Astor, when seen tosday sald it was the first and last rhinoceros he ever cared to serve, “Tt took four horses to drag It here from the steamer,’ ho sald, ‘We shall take it apart and ‘etl It and then | put tt together again and place It on a long table, As to the report that Prince pene or any other forelan notable the carcass over T am not allowed Tt was shot in'Afriea and sent Hy 9 this country on a Mew, Maybrick on American Prisonn In next Sunday's Now York ‘World, first of a sores of remarkabje articles by the Amertean woman who was ‘tly pardoned after spending fifteen fain English prisons, and who has fn ted To Prove lt { Sand a elal Free by Mall, ov Trial Can Be Had Free at Office removes e r Catarrh, NO OBA TRVER for sending you the REE 1 TAL TREAT mt! let this generous A Di ony aver the questions yes ol i to or bring to booroR CARDNEL, 485 Kth AV., Y. CITY, and receive the trial PROE Nn FOR THE DEAF, Do you have catarrh? Do your ears throb? 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And what more orchid-like than lovely ‘THe Silks—hundreds of then— patterns new—colorings rich and sparkling the Rotunda How the eyes delight in such color woman in silk suit clad? overflows with them. But how tell about them ? Two hundred and fifty pieces of popular-priced Novelty Silke—American, French and Swiss—glace and chameleon hair-line stripes and fine checked Chiffon Taffetas, broche and jacquard figured checks und stripes; surface and warp, printed Louisines and Taffetas; new, dull cloth effect com. binations in Checked Poplinettes ; eelf-colored brocaded Taffetas; Novelty Messalines; new. monotone Taffetas; plain ehepherd’s check Taffetas and Louisines, new satin-barréd French Plaids; black-and- white and jasper gray Novelties. 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