Whooping News

Last week when whooping cough was at its seasonal peak, Johns Hopkins University Medical School investigators let it be known that the late Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's only son-in-law had chosen the fight against that disease as his own first public philanthropy.

Margaret, Carnegie's only child, whom he called "Baba" and for whom he built Skibo Castle in Scotland, married Roswell Miller Jr. in 1919, when she was 22, he 24 and a Princeton undergraduate (Class of 1921). He was considered "an active man," theirs "a natural healthy union." They have four children--Louise C., Barbara, Margaret, Roswell III. Mr. Miller maintains a real-estate office in midtown Manhattan and a home adjacent to the garden of the Carnegie Fifth Avenue mansion. After Carnegie gave $190,000,000 to various philanthropies, $125,000,000 to the Carnegie Corporation and $10,000,000 to the United Kingdom Trust, $15,000,000 remained to be bequeathed in 1919 to Mrs. Carnegie and the Miller family. Son-in-law Miller's donation to Johns Hopkins financed the bed & board of 13 chimpanzees. These apes contract whooping cough as easily as do children, are more easily managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease.

During the spring and summer whoop-ing-cough season of 1935 Miller-main-tained chimpanzees "Herbert H," "Becky," "Darby," "Joan" & friends were infected with sputum from the throats of whooping Baltimore children. Evidence indicated that the whooping-cough germ requires a virus to lead the way into the air passages before the disease breaks out. That virus seemed to be the same virus implicated in the common cold.

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