A NEW DISEASE | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1879

A NEW DISEASE.

—New York, July 14.—The Sun says that during the past week a novel and singular disease has manifested itself among the girls employed in Lorillard's tobacco factory, Jersey City. On Wednesday last Mary Horsey, aged 19, who was working in the straining department, complained of a terrible pain in her side. She fell to the floor unconscious, and was carried to her home in an ambulance. Here she was seized with violent convulsions, and while these attacks lasted the combined strength of four men was required to hold her. Thirty of the girls are sick now. A report that they were at work on tobacco stored in New Orleans last summer, and which contained germs of the disease, created great excitement. Physicians are giving the case special study.