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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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MIDSUMMER DAY DREAMS
OF PELLSERA
Despite Two Years' Research by
Learned Commission Disease
Remains Mystery.
SPARTANBURG, 8. C.. Sept. 4.-
After two years of research by a j
rorps of twenty scientists, the
Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Com- :
mission still Is ignorant of the cause j
of the disease. This was announced j
by Dr. Ward J. McNeal, of the New
York Post-Graduate Hospital, at a ;
conference here of Southern physi- j
clans.
Nearly two hundred physicians, |
students of the disease, were here for
the conference. They came from
nearly every Southern State.
Dr. McNeal summarized the com
mission’s findings thus:
“First, the supposition that the in
gestion of good or spoiled maize is
the essential cause of pellagra is not
supported by our study.
“Second, pellagra is in all proba
bility a specific infe.ctious disease
communicable by means at present
unknown.
“Third, we have discovered no evi
dence incriminating buffalo gnats in
the causation of pellagra. If it is dis
tributed by a blood-sucking Insect,
the stable fly w r ould appear to be the
most probable carrier.
No Specific Cause Found.
“Fourth, we are inclined to regard
intimate association in the household
and the contamination of food with
the excretions of pellagrins as possi
ble modes of distribution of the dis
ease.
“Fifth, no specific cause of pellagra
has been recognized.’’
Although none of the assembled
physicians was able to suggest a spe
cific remedy for the disease. Dr. C. H.
I^avinder, of the public health serv
ice, Savannah, Ga., declared:
“If you remove a pellagrin in the
early stages of the disease from the
endemic locality of the disease, put
him in better surroundings and give
him plenty of good, nourishing food,
regardless of treatment he will get
well and stay well. In view of the
high mortality of pellagra and the
pessimistic feeling in regard to it this
should be a comforting thought to us
It should also be comforting that pel
lagra is not directly transmissible
from one person to another.’’
Sambon Suspects Gnat.
Dr. Louis W. Sambon, head of the
School of Tropical Medicine, London,
also spoke.
Dr. Sambon, chief exponent of the
inaect theory of dissemination, de
clared pellagra rapidly is becoming a
subject of world-wide concern. Fif
ty-three cases, he said, had been dis
covered in the British Isles. Hun
dreds of others, he added, probably
existed, but had been unidentified be
cause of the Ignorance of physicians
in regard to the disease.
Although extensive research work
had convinced him. Dr. Sambon said,
that pellagra is transmitted by an in
sect, he had reached no definite con
clusion as to the identity of the trans
mitting agent. He suggested that the
buffalo gnat seemed a likely suspect,
drawing his inference from the fact
that the disease spreads most rapidly
along flowing streams.
Macon Doctor Lays
Blame on Bedbug.
MACON, Sept. 4.—The lowly bed
bug has now been accused of another
crime. Pellagra is the latest offense
charged to it.
Dr. J. M. Sigman, a prominent Ma
con specialist, left to-day for Spar
tanburg. where he will read a paper
before the conference of Southern
physicians now in session there on
the cause of pellagra. He will assert
that the malady is caused by the bite
of the bedbug, sometimes known as
the “chinch." Dr. Sigman claims to
have traced two local cases directly
to the bug.
At the conference in Spartanburg
yesterday the Thompson-McFadden
Pellagra Commission reported that it
was possible that the disease “was
distributed by a blood-sucking in
sect.”
ATLANTA IS BASE
SAIF BIRDS
Women Plan Organization—Au
dubon Leader Elated Over
Change Barring Plumage.
Women Must Observe
Traffic Ordinances
COLUMBUS, Sept. 4.—Chief of Po
lice J. Thomas Moore, of this city,
has issued instructions to the mem
bers of the police force to make cases
against all who violate the traffic or
dinances of the city.
The Chief states that heretofore the
department has been content with a
simple warning to women who have
violated the ordinances, but that
hereafter the officers have instruc
tions to make cases against them, and
that they will be brought before the
Recorder in the same manner as men
who violate the traffic ordinance.
HOSPITAL COMMISSION.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 4.—Columbus
City Council has decided to establish
a commission to have charge of the
new city hospital to be erected by the
city. There will be several members
of the commission, three o* whom will
be physicians, while the other four
will be selected from among the busi
ness men of the tow’n.
Old Guard to Meet
And Plan Reception
The Old Guard of the Gate City
Guard will meet at the University
Club Friday evening at 8 o’clock to
consider the executive committee’s
plans for the annual reception and a
proposition to hold regular meetings
every 60 days.
The Friday evening meeting will be
a sort of "get-together” gathering, in
which '34 members will have an op
portunity to learn to know each other
better. It will be a strictly informul
stag affair, with light refreshments
and lots of cigars.
Mellen Gets $150,000
For Loss of His Job
NEW HAVEN, Sept. 4.—The posi
tion of advisor to the New Haven
Railroad was created for Presidem
Mellen only after he had pointed out
to the directors that a drop In New
Haven stock had cost him a large part
of his fortune. He was voted a sal
ary of $30,000 annually for five years.
Warden Refuses to
Hang a Boy Slayer
SALEM, ORE., Sept. 4.—A report
that Colonel Lawson, warden of the
penitentiary, will resign if he is or
dered to hang Robert Morgan. 18-
year-old flayer of Virgla Hart, of
Condon, was confirmed by Governor
West.
“I don’t mind hanging hardened
criminals, but I don’t believe the S' te
should begin the execution of chil
dren.’’ Lawson is said to have told
the Governor.
$1,000,000 Levee at
Cario, Ill., Is Started
CAIRO, ILL., Sept. 4.—Work has
been begun on the new 60-foot levees
for Cairo for which more than $1,-
000,000 has been appropriated. Chair
man Arthur W. Charles, of Illinois
Rivers and Lake Commission and
Chief Engineer Walter A. Shaw are
in charge.
"Nothing could have given me more
heart for my fight in behalf of the
birds here in the South than the dis
patch telling of the gloriuos victory
In Washington,’’ declared James Hen
ry Rice Thursday, discussing the res
toration by the Senate finance smb-
committee of the House proviso in
the tariff bill, which forbids the im
portation of plumage other than that
of the ostrich and domestic poultry.
Mr. Rice is field agent for the Au
dubon Society. Practically all of the
South is in his territory. There is a
reason for his being in Atlanta. The
head officers of the Audubon Society
read in The Georgian some time ago
that Atlanta was the center of the
millinery business in the South and
that about $2,000,000 worth of busi
ness was done every year.
"Atlanta is the strategic point for
the base of our operations,” was the
decision. So Mr. Rice was dispatched
here at once, and it was announced
Thursday that Atlanta is to be the
headquarters for the Audubon Socie
ty in the South.
Astounded at Enthusiasm.
“I have been astounded by the in
tense enthusiasm of the women of
Atlanta,” said Mr. Rice. “In the last
few days I have held numerous con
ferences and have received scores of
telephone calls. The women May that
they are going to have a bigger so
ciety for the protection of the birds
than New York, and, to tell the
truth. I wouldn’t be surprised if they
did.”
A meeting of the City Federation of
Women’s Clubs will be held Friday
night to launch the project. Mr. Rice
.will be the principal speaker.
"There is more sentiment in Atlanta
in favor of bird protection than in any
other city south of Boston.” declared
the ornithologist. "I have found also
the business men and many State of
ficials heart and soul in the work.
They appreciate the practical value of
the crusade.
"The South has been the home in
the past of many of the bright-plumed
birds that have been offered up as a
sacrifice to miladv’s vanity. Many »f
them now practically are extinct.
There are the herons, the flaming
flamingoes which found a home in.
Georgia, South Carolina and Florida,
the roseate spoonbills. •
Slayino Birds Fine for Insect*.
"All were on the verge of extinc
tion when the crusade for their pres
ervation was started.
“It is probable that Georgia loses
$40,000,000 annually through the pes
tiferous insects. Practically the only
check is the flocks of birds. Yet thes*»
flocks have been killed off until they
number only a fraction of what they
once were.
"The Chinese killed off their herons
and then the grasshoppers proceeded
calmly to eat everything up. Then
the famine came and America assist
ed in paying for the calamity. This
is bound to be the history in everv
case where* a great country allows
birds to be destroyed.
“I am glad to say the House pro
viso was restored. The prevention
of the importation of plumage is a
greater protection to American birds
than it is to birds of o+hpr countries.’*
CHURC HCALLS OLD PASTOR.
Meldrim Loses by
One Vote to Taft in
BarPresidencyRace
’ MONTREAL, Sept. 4.—-General P.
W. Meldrim, of Savannah, Ga., gave
former President W. H. Taft a merry
run for the presidency of the Ameri
can Bar Association in the election
which closed the annual meet of the
lawyers of the United States here
yesterday.
It had been generally understood
that General Meldrim would be chosen
president, but the nomination of for
mer President Taft complicated mat
ters.
On the first ballot, which was by
States, Taft and Meldrim tied. On
the second ballot one vote changed to
Mr. Taft and General Meldrim was
defeated.
The general feeling among mem
bers of the bar association is that
General Meldrim will be unanimously
chosen to head the association next
year.
Planning Reform in
Personnel of Navy
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—The
House naval affairs committee will
hold hearings .y>on, with a view to
drafting legislation reorganizing the
naval personnel. The reform prob
ably will be ready for presentation to
Congress when it convenes in Decem
ber.
Rear Admiral T. B. Howard, presi
dent of the naval examining board,
and Captain Pechtler, president of
the board of inspection for ships, will
be the first witnesses. The proposed
legislation would provide for a steady
flow of promotions.
Bloomer Girls Defeat
Preachers in Skirts
PHILADELPHIA. Sept 4.—Nine
ministers, dressed in skirts, and nine
pretty girls, in bloomers, furnished
most of the excitement for 2,500 mem
bers of the Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Bible Class at the outing of that or
ganization on the grounds of Bible
Class Home at Lansdowne.
It was not much of a ball game,
but the contest, which was for a box
of candy, proved of great interest.
Mr. Biddle announced that Miss Anna
Zang had twirled the Bloomerites to
victory by a score of 16 to 5.
Wi.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 4.—The Rev.
Lamar Jones has been called to tho
pastorate of the West Side Baptist
Church, of Phenix City. Mr. Jones
Is a former pastor of the church.
BUTTS TAX RATE.
JACKSON, Sept. 3.—The tax rate for
Butts County for the year 1913 has been
fixed by County Commissioner J. O.
Gaston and is twelve mills, the same
rate as last year.
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