Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — CHILD KILLED BY SENILITY [ARTICLE]

CHILD KILLED BY SENILITY

Slx-Year-Old Girl Bore All the Symptoms of Extreme Old Age. Cleveland. —Rosie Gryelck, 2107 Robin avenue, Lakewood, is dead of “old age,” though her seventh birthday was not until next August The little girl’s hair was as gray as that of the aged women who are ending their long lives in the sun at Warrenville. Not only had her hair turned gray, but many other characteristic changes, which appear with the passing of middle life, accompanied the progress of the rare malady which caused her death. Her steps were faltering, and her hands withered, while wrinkles lined her face. Her parents and her younger sisters had become accustomed to these changes. So had some of the neighbors. Many others who visited the house, learned for the first time of the little girl whose life had so been telescoped that while youth was yet beginning, old age came on. To. many of these visitors this was an awesome thing. They cfossed themtoelves and talked of it in whispers. Coroner P. J. Byrne visited ths home after the child's death and reiterated the statement that she had died of “old age.” Raymund’s disease was given as ths cause of death. This unusual affection, as medical textbooks show, is named after Dr. Maurice Raymund, who first described it in 1862. It has its seat in the heart and results In A diminished flow of blood to the lungs. The final result is a malnutrition

which brings about changee, which commonly accompany old age. The immediate cause of the child's death was dropsy, i