The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-17

saw Was the prnoner (rnompso0) when carrying the
BEDS
a.srispt poy,,c,sn for aye years; have had lag
Timber Of objections and contagious diseases un 'ef
my charge 70 he. o s.a %. snree hundred .aS
6fty OF September We nad ABOUT egnV ING
hospras; that below the average numOer ie.s. SLY
twenty were taken down and placed In the lover build
ing except three smallpox patients, who were taken
rs.. two were well; one was discharged next day.
one wss detained scratches her face and sna
bad sore and was carried out ordered these pa
tents 70 be CARED out but don't know took tnem
out. q was at the lower hospital after they were
srO,gs there .. sns nrse Isn Sd Say DE-
removal would be the beginning OF the burning the
hospital; but old not II the hospital were set dc -
that they should be burned In Il; when saw Dr. Ander
the drst night, the buildings not re 70
fused to ALLOW the patients to be removed out Of me hos
hre-ne spsrks from the other building no.fainns
on the hospital Dr. ThompsoDs houee only was on hfe
end the sparks e~ different direction nothing set
fire the first night the pal. but straw tick, and
believe ore Of the nurses saw man leaving the room
but few minutes before about shry Of these sick per
sent fr Staten Island The next day aud ran
tina. there not than twopy that were
not able 70 walk about the second night Dr. rhompsons
boatmon bring the sick Ashore and the wagons Of ne Ma
YDs Hospital them carry the different
hospitals there are usually ladders placed on the side
lay them carefully on blankets in the boats ali yellow
fever cases are brought up from the lower bay In the
Cinderella as al yellow fever csses are obliged 70 aochor
below An officer goes board there and brings up
the patients to Quarantine the CINDERELLA has been en-
ployed in the bay about four months think she to
the lower bay every day. but how often cannot say; do
know ho. often she goes up New York; the Health
officers boatnep reside in the houses called the Brick
ro~ they RESIDE there with their families there IL no
thirg ths. know Of 70 prevent them mngng with the
inhabitants Of the village except tSe occasional restric
TOES of the Health 0cer they have TO pass outside toe
wall along the main street, 70 get 20 their boats usde the
Quarantine enclosure; those Who die from infectious dis
buried about two miles from the grounds in the
cemetery in taking the dead TO this burial place they
have be broug through the village the aod
teries attend the buras and pace bodies In the
coas these orderlies go New York about
gong outside the grounds at night they cannot pass toe
gate without pass from myself Dr. Bssell, the Nave
do-es lodged IL the old warehouse where they dis
change the v-sso ~ 10 shanty
Mr PsckhAm-0r IN the S, Nicholas9
witnees-No, air. D-ver.
Examination cortinued-I do not know anything about
these steve dores sttesoi1g potica meeting read OF 1t
patents are kept up TIE smallpox hospital; the
clothes are washed ~ women there whose duties are
also to attend upon the sck the clothes OF the yello~
fever patients are KEPT entirely away from the yellow
fever hospital ard are returned to them they recover
nothee but tue clothes they wear Is brought ashore
Wat is the use OF The iron scow, them A. II has
connection at Gil with the hospital; 10 the best OF
opinion il ia used 10 burn infected aud refuse clothing
from vseses have never seen Ehas Is thrown ioto
q. Who ha1 charge OF this scow previous to Is. Sap
temter? A. urderrt,od this, David McLy mao had he
lived in the iDrd o,A.mans house. his Assistants name
was Kramer be s des6; he died, believe, on 29.h OF
July last he died OF yellow fever sicsened In the
village, and went my self to his house; found him sick
black vomit, but had convusors, which Is the very
worst symptom Of yeiow fever ana Ia inevitably ioio Sei
part OF TIE city, but think the vicinity OF ST.
Mays church more hickly populated than that part
Of lbe town; WREN vieiiec his house I fouoa
tia. hist wife dead and from q superficial
sminston Of the dead bosy, tniok she died OF yeov
ever can procure copy OF the Quarantine regulaops
and W 90 50; do lot frequently to New York;
during scarcely outsice the was IN the
winter pge with the residents OF the village, bot dnr
Ing the sumner been bu, four times in the city my
summer.
the hospital have you not attended TO private practice
outside the walls A. Never.
O In your opinion the present grounds sufficient
form perfectly Isolated quarariipeS A. No, sir;
think NOT, "a regards cholera and yellow fever.
10 not Dangerous, with the present limited
INTO TOO close cortguiy A. depencs on The disease
Y. Well, take yeliow fever 4. smallpox can be isolat
ed sssce sn., ysSs feysI not Contagious as
MI. Anthor- Doctor, yoc beiorg TO tie non conagon
Dr. walser-Ncn cA,sgon as FAR a. yel;oE fever IL
coDcerLed-basrg my theory upon the records Of
hospital and other hospitals elsewhere.
Witness c1cinues-Duripg tnn time have been there
there have been OF taking the cholera from
pauer,s brought in, but we bad none THIS summer
M Pecsbam ola not think they should 70 pto the che
era question: 10 this investigation they should keep Clear
OF cholera.
Judge Dcaa-rhsii is wis, we wan, to do We want
TO keep clear Of cholera and al other diseases.
Mr.. Anihon sad they intended % have the fullest In
curry INTO the management OF the hospital, and did not
dis-ase.
The Court allowed tie question.
Examination resumed rbe largest number OF cholera
patients che time IN the hospital ABOUT seventy 10
seventy ave; IN the year lss6 there was yeoS fever In
the bospa, curing that summer there about six.
among the inmn,es OF the naptsl, bas
among the pAien's that came 10 with ether diesses
all these cases we're among the empoyes OF oaGau'ue
they al lived ccse by The water side; the whole family
Of The engineer OF The vssn self, wife aud ca
crep; he and his wife sne one child died; tho
OF the matron, wso lived above the wash Juse, two
NntnfrwOncu.
Health ofoer, Ir Aarbugcae; the ga,ekeeper ant HE
vile two orceres aud too nurses (wno lsrsed aud laid
eneIssrl and toe masrons son ant ths csrpsn
ers vie and person who VISITED she gatskeeper be-
c-e that wac All The nurse isst mentioned rcsised 10
Tie female hospital abe noyred the gsekeepsr our hs
pess ali tbese persons have nenuonec uscc 70 90 Into
tie village and the mstron 10 the habit OF receiving
yuters TIE two washer women mentioned used TO VAIN
81 the government wash house. s thai time do no. thnk
there sere any passengers Landed or on the grounds;
cannot cay Why there were nci aoy passengers the
grounds tntn unlefs tnat zone camc from infected yes
-es; ire mauons son Is otsn cut 10 the village; he bad
irte pass snd vent out every DAY DC was never shout
there yellow fever outside the walls that year down
al toe ehth and at Wood row or 5, Mays avenus
ATS called row, believe there we're soms t~en,y
seven cases. and some fourteen died this Wood
Is about q nile and bali from the Quarantine
grouDds there 9 great many infected vessels thai
year anchored OF the shore-sbo ieo could not say
that there we're great many beds &C. asatng about the
BAY that year the yellow fever extnded 70 Long Island
shore from Fort Hamilton 10 Yellow HOOK, near Green.
wood Cemetery: WA In almost every house along the
shore there we're cases Brooklyn except those that
tsuc itotu Aeuos hoA tlc 0stAc N3 tplueMS AolS
fSpg Island shf 70 there about ons hurired and
eighty cases and zone eighty oessns visited almos,
every house the vessels kept up mere Long Island
shore and Ssaten Island win suffer py u.
csse>, even CO the Long slsud shore, l traced The
Of fever - osbog asing infected articles
thippbg; DO not beheve our bospits bccu
feced with yelios fever except the shore, the .sme
n the shore aosg lone Island, q Fort aausn, and Day
Rose there evidence tna the hospital Infected;
yellow fever shpbcard only evidence
lection not 9, be Cause e probable that u oue cas-. o.
yellow fever breaks out sh aboard that others
II too do not think that yellow fever patients beng
placed board clean vessel would infect her; n 90
hing but the persons themselves broush bo~ri
aud not Their clothing or bedding; do not thinn
that persons III with yellow fever inject The clo<hlns
bedding provided . bed not board
. ship from Infected place = person nlsht
sleep on bed 90 which yellow fever patient had died,
the masms rom infected cargoes might DC carried
from infected ship; the ships have hecn unosded
n hut f.rlr had m