New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-20
RNTER DEATH.

The Book of Job furnishes authority for tho
statement that all that man hath will he give
for his life. Law.sbiding. tax-paying citizens
while deploring the disease which New-York
suffers because she has been turned over to OH
cial thieves are promo to say that they prefer to
pay their taxes rather than undertake the per.
sonal work Of reform; that they cannot help 1t.
and it is not their business. II il not all
question of money, however, as We hope to
make clear TO those who will follow us while We
quote from the Same volume which has fur.
nished our data before, some statements OF the
extent of malignant disease, and the continual
opportunities furnished for its spread.
Upon a chart drawn for this purpose OF illus.
tration, We count, in the six blocks nclosed BY
Church, Duane, Hudson, and Leonard-sts.,
GO houses where cases Of typhus fever occurred
during the year 1864, and IS where smallpox
occurred, the two diseases generally agreeing
to occupy the same house. In Gotham
Court" Fourth Ward, where 30 per cent Of the
children born never see second birthday, out
Of population Of 5Oi there had been 20 cases
Of smallpox during the year, while on the day
of inspection there were 4 cases. beside OF
typhus, the whole number then sick being lao.
In one district whose locality is not stated,
within the area Of quarter of q square mile,
$50 tenements were found in which smallpox
and fever had recently prevailed or were then
prevailing. In the Fourth Ward more than 81
cases of smallpox and more than l3s of typhus
occurred during the year. In the Sixth, 2o3 cases
Of fever and - of smallpox were treated or
sent to hospital. In the Seventh District, over
200 cases of typhus and 80 Of smallpox were
attended during the year By the District Dis
pcnsary physician. In a single tenement on
Monroe.s,., containing 200 persons, ~ cases OF
typhus originated in one season. "Typhus
and typhoid fcvers have been found prevailing
in all sections of this district eleventh Ward.
Smallpox. scarlatina, measles, and pulmonary
diseases are met in almost every street. Typhus
is the most typical Of the preyentible diseases
that abound in this Ward" From one house
in East scyenteenth-st., 80 fever cases were
reported and sent to hospital during 1864: and
more than 10 persons were attacked with fever
in that one pest-house during the year.
Dat Of hundreds Of instances thees may pass
a. fair samples. Now let US note the liability
to transplan,ing under which these seeds of
death terminate. "Within single block from
the elegant mansions OF Stuyvesant-squa is a
row OF tenant-houses in which typhus has been
constantly prevailing for more than year past;
from one Of these houses, in which reside 20
families, 90 patients went to the ieyer-hosptal
in I-6., and at least 80 cases occurred in the
house during the year" In another quarter
the ravages Of typhus have caused such panic
that, by perpetual succession Of hasty re-
movals, "thc 2: domiciles Of that single rookery
have sent out an incessant aud widely dis
ributed current of the typhus poison to other
nd distant sections of the city" Two instances
re reported whore respectively and II cases
If iyphus, in different localities and families,
sprung from one common center. The Council OF
Hygiene of the Citizens Association declare that
the number OF tenerlents already infested with
fsver-oison is believed to be ct least 500, while
lthcnumbcr Of inselubrous dwellings particularly
liable to this disease is fully 5000. The follow.
ing arc few Of the cases Of exposure to small
pox quoted: "NO. Thirty third-st., child
with continent eruption in room adjacent to
candy and cigar store kept by mother No. y
sIth-avc., fancy store on first floor and
dentists rooms aboyc patient not removed.
Nos. Third-st, cases; shrt-makng car
ried on in one Of the families. Nos. - Pak-st.,
IL cases in families and rooms here clothing is
manufactured for stores in Fulton-st. No. Il
Pell-st., 8 cases in rooms where clothing was
made up for Wholesale stores. No. - Riying.
ton.st. child covered with smallpox lying on
the tailor's board with the new clothing the
father was making up for q Broadway store.
In seven tenements in the Gotham Court +"
aforementioned, tailoring was carried on, cases
Of contagious disease being in two Of The rooms.
Typhus broke up families in Jacobst. and
Cherry-st.. and other places, where whole
families were known to have had it, "but con-
corning whom no other data could be found.
In one instance q friend Of an immigrant who
was taken with typhus conveyed the disease to
her friend visiting her, and the latter--a female
domostic-conveyed it to the family with whom
she lived in East Twelfth-st., and eight other
persons, residing in different parts of the city
and Brooklyn, contracted the disease while at
tending to one person.
No man is secure in his own house, as 1t ap-
pears, or in the garments no puts on. The case
related in Chas Kipgslev's Alton Locke" il |