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MORGAN, UNABLE TO EAT, DIES IN ROME; BODY IS TO BE SENT HERE FOR BURIAL
J. P. MORGAN DIES IN ROME; DELIRIOUS SINCE EASTER
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Unable to Eat or Drink Following Acute Attack of Gastro Enteritis On His
Egyptian TourโWas Seventy-six Years Old
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END CAME SOONER THAN PHYSICIANS EXPECTED
ROME, March 31โJ. Pierpont Morgan lies dead here at the Grand Hotel. His death, which had been certain for hours owing to the fact that he had been
able to take no food for two days and but little liquid food for many weeks, came with a swift decline at 7.05 this morning, New York time.
Attending him as physicians were Dr. M. Allen Starr, who was not only the Morgan family physician, but one of his closest friends; Dr. Dixon, who has been travelling with Mr. Morgan, and Dr. Giuseppe Bastianelli, an eminent Roman specialist in diseases of the stomach.
It was announced this afternoon that Mr. Morgan's body will be taken to America as soon as proper arrangements can be made. A statement giving the full story of Mr. Morgan's illness has been prepared
by Prof. Giuseppe Bastianelli, Dr. M. Allen Starr and Dr. George A. Dixon and cabled to his son in New York. The statement recapitulates the symptoms
of Mr. Morgan's malady since it first developed in Egypt. It qualifies his illness as nervous prostration, but says that his intelligence remained
normal until Easter Sunday. Then a gradual general collapse supervened, affecting the digestion and the mental faculties until delirium ensued. The
rise of temperature noted was, it is stated, probably due to lesions of the brain.
The end came sooner than the physicians had anticipated. Drs. Starr, Dixon and Bastianelli had issued a bulletin an hour before, saying that while Mr. Morgan was unable to recognize those about him and his condition was hopeless he might linger for forty-eight hours.
A quarter of an hour before the end the physicians asked Mr. and Mrs. Satterlee to leave the death chamber and to go into an adjoining room. They
feared that the end might come with a distressingly violent spasm of pain.
Mr. Morgan's life faded out without the slightest indication that he was conscious of its passing.
The members of the family were called in just at the moment of death, and were at the bedside when the last spark of life flickered out.
WORRIED BY WORK OF PUJO COMMITTEE
Immediately after his death Dr. M. Allen Starr, who was very much affected, said that Mr. Morgan's illness and death were directly due to the emotional strain inflicted by his being called upon to account for his life and his financial career before the Pujo committee at Washington just before the
Christmas holidays. His departure for Egypt was at the insistence of the physicians, who said that his nervous breakdown demanded a change of scene and a departure from this country.
The whole truth of Mr. Morgan's illness was confided to The Evening World
to-day by a close friend of the Morgan family. Mr. Morgan was ill with a nervous breakdown when he left New York on the Adriatic. When the ship was stuck in the mud down the bay he did not feel well enough to go to the deck with the other passengers who were watching the tugs haul her back into thechannel.
Before the ship reached Alexandria he was taken ill on the Mediterranean with acute gastro-enteritis. He suffered horribly, and it was feared he would die on shipboard. On his arrival he became slightly better and took liberties with his digestion.
An immediate return of the earlier attack occurred, and there was again grave danger of his death. Dr. Bastianelli, the Roman specialist, was summoned. He found on his arrival in the first week in March that the gastro-enteritis, almost certainly fatal in a man of Mr. Morgan's years, was complicated by Nile fever.
From that day to this Mr. Morgan had not tasted solid food. He had been nourished on champagne and champagne glace. Two days ago even this slight nourishment failed, and he did not assimilate the food administered hypodermically. The physical exertion of the convulsions of pain which accompanied the two attacks of gastro-enteritis had caused an attack of paralysis which affected the throat and reduced him to writing his brief communications to the physicians and his family, and in the end to communicate with them by signs. There was grave fear of his death on the ship which carried him from Egypt to Naples. He was on deck but once, and then was supported on the arms of his physicians and stayed only an hour.
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