The New York herald., 1871-03-02
SMALLPOX STORIES.
THE VICTIMS OF THE EPIDEMIC.
shivering Artists-A Frightful Price for Coal
Transit to the Island-Inhuman Humanity.

now few Of the many thousands In this city OF
noble charities ever stop to think they go about
their ordinary vocations in robust health OF the
dreadful dependence Of those attacked by disease
upon oficals whose sensibities have become dulled
by continual contact with suffering Worn
by confinement and weakened by pain, the wretched
invalid is showed about from one piece OF mechan-
Ism to another until he finds himself half dead
upon The miserable pallet from which, perhaps. no
may never rise OF his own accord.
From the hands of sympathlzng and arectionato
friends or relatives whose touch IL soft and kind.
who move about the room with noiseess step and
undtsurbing notion whose voice Is low and anxious
as they question the afflicted, who watch and wais
on every symptom. good or bad, with a care that
shows their
DEEP, ABSORBING INTEREST
10 the rude grip OF method and unfeelingness and,
worse than all to the shattered nerve OF the sensi.
tive, the hospital the miserable subject wnom the
law obhges u become object OF public charity be.
cause the hand Vi Providence has visited hlm win
ls seVerest sc0uISe, 10 whom perhaps talking Is an
agony, Is forced to tell ms name and whe ne
came from last, the place OF his birth, how long
ne mas lived, and account for himself aud his re-
hglon sone three or four times before he is per-
m M TIED to stretch ms weary limbs upon the narrow
sOclt0us attention he Is transferred to
NOISE AND NEGLIGENCE.
Here at least In the wards OF the hospital humanity
Is on level Not many days ago young and
talented man, whom many OF tue best critics III New
York had pronounced brlm ful OF talent and one OF
the most promising artists III the city, caught cold.
II Is supposed In MS studio In the building or the
Young Mems Christian Association. From the
studios In this building 1t appears that, either
from desire 10 economic the iuel the worthless
ness oi the apparatus. their rooms are rrequ ntIy
without any heat To this cause and the entire alb
sence Of warmth at night in house where several
families and number OF young men live, they attr-
illness which has just ended SO lamentaDy Black
wells Island. ON their frequent remonslrance VITA
the proper Official OF The association taey were
soaced mi
CHRISTIAN G) SPIRIT
with the cheering reflection that The world was full
OF troubles, and when death came they would all De
ended"
HERALD OF yes terday, lived in boarding house on
Madison avenue, where received the kan est treat
ment. His physician, VINO Is severely censured by
deserted him, they declare, from Wednesday morn
ing until Thursday night, ana then only coming when
he was sent Tor Notwithstanding the symptoms OF
varioloid were evident-bccom,ng convinced the
disease had ATTACKED nim, informed an ofiicer OF
the Board of Health who had him removed
to Bellevue Hospital; from there he was
sent TO BlacSwel's Island. where he died
a few days ago OF congestion OF the brain. HIS
uncle, Mr.. Bonner, went 10 see him on last MOnday
week; and the latter on his return, the small
pOx boat arrive at the Island. when ne Witnessed,
he says land he Is prepared to make aiidavt To yne
factsL scene that
MADE HIS BLOOD RUN COLD
and ana 81 shyer tn IN his veins; Iney brought man
feet and without any other covering on him
than his night clothes. On the landing or the boat
there was no one to receive hun and the deck hands
refused to touch him or come near him, and would
have nothing to do with him, so that in
IN this condition the poor fellow, covered with the
virus. was compelled to walk through the snow and
susn up to the hospital alone. On the following
Friday this gentleman says he saw woman brought
over Tor whom no preparation had been made.
There was neither strecher nor attendance OF any
kind TO receive her, aud the men VINO brought her
across
DUMPED THE UNFORTUNATE CREATURE
on the ground and left her there. The officers OF
the Board OF Health assert they have nothing To do
with The patient after putting him in Bellevue Hos
pital. On seeing that the case Is a proper
one they take it in charge from the attend.
ing physician. convey it to Bellevue, when
their control ends. The warden the hospital
then receives the patient and retains c0ntro or him
until ne is placed in the boat for transit 10 the
Island The matter now rests between the officials
on the boat and those at the Island and 1t Is to be
hoped they can satisfy the pubic these are excep-
tional cases.
THE GREAT EXCITEMENT
In the minds OF the people at the present time with
regard to smallpox is not likely to be Gained by
this treatment OF the sufferers by the disease the
officials VINO should certainly show another kind OF
humanity for the money they receive from ..ths
CITY OF ChaIltie2.N