New-York tribune., 1878-07-19
VICTIMS OF THE FIERCE HEAT.
LARGE NUMBER or CASES OF sUNsTROKE, BUT No
FATAL, RESULTS.

VICTIMS OF THE FIERCE HEAT.
LARGE NUMBER OF CAsEs OF sUNsTROKE, BUT NO
FATAL RESULTS.
The extreme heat of yesterday, aggravated
by the suty air and the absence Of all breeze Overee
Iarge number of people Cases Of fire.
quont but IL the thirty-hve reported N this
city and Brooklyn, fatal results have yet followed
at the Chambers street Hospital preparations were
made though any large scale, to receive cases Of
prostrstion by tho neat in downtown streets As the
pateus brought In the temperature Of the body
was first taken. Then the sufferer placed rub
Der bed and sprnkled WITH water at the ordinary tenn
perature. This was followed By colder water
and in some cases with ieewater None Of the cases
brought 10 this hospital those Of genuine
stroke. They were merely persons overcome by the
heat The officers OF the hospital expect an Of their p
ents 70 be able TO depart to-day. The cases we've Of
mNder character and fewer In number thsn
peeted frem the severity OF the heat.
No special arrangements wers made at Bellevue for
cases Of sunstroke but the physicians declared that
they have every facility for their treatment The plan
adopted here is follows The sufferers placed in
cool room, stmuants gwen in OF necessity, and
india rubber bags hled with ice ere applied the
cal The temperature Of the body s then reduced by
spOnging. first with warm and then Wiih cold water
Ehs treatment with tanning and careful atten
ton, is generally successful.
The following complete list Of the cases Of sun
stroke and pFosaoH by the reported yesterday In
this city and Brooklyn:
ANDERSON JANIS age forty years of No. 639 East Tir
teenth-st-, fireman for the Manhattan Gas COu-
pany was overcome by the heat IL the gas house at
FOurteeuth-st. and Avenue-B. but recovered sufi-
GENTLY 20 be seat home.
ondst;, while at work on Q new building at NO -
East Ffteenth-st, was Frustrated by the heat and
BoYESTON, JOHN age twenty residing at Canal and
Bates-st was taken TO the Ghamoels street Hosptai
BURNS. JOIN Of No sOi East Forty hf-s, was over
come &c Pearl and Chathaul-sts. taken home.
CAvASAUGH john, age thirty two years of No 1611a
CBerry-st, overcome by the beat while IT work
on q schooner lying at Pier No. 10, East River.
Doll, MARGARET E. age tweny-three, Of no 1.454 See
the Grand Central Depot, ana was taken home by
her friends.
ave, Brooklyn, prOstFated on Atlaniicaye. Taken
to Long Island College Hospital
FARsE As ave nv b 9 S Seaf I'm IN To4t Of Ns
so West Nnth-s, but recovered and started for his
FERE1s MICHAEL, age thirty five iaborer. prostrated
at the Empire stores Brooklyn. Taken 20 his home
FREEcH MILES age twsatytSo years Iys was overcome
E5ghty-frst-st. East River.
StrSEe- en- TaEen 10 tie Chambers street Hospital
GREECE CaBlIR. twenty-five years, OF CaDalst and
South Fitb-avC.. was overcome by the neat al
Greene-st aud Washington-pace, and was seut to ST
ViBceuf's Hospital
HENRY, WILLIAM, ago about thirteen residing at No.
446 East NnsteentlTst, went himself about noon TO
the Chambers street Hospital received treatment
and was able 20 90 away al O'clock.
Hons, ABSOLD. Of Nc. 10 HowaTd-st, sent to ST Vim
HrSFs. CIaRIEs age thifty-ve years or No. All East
yenteeI i-s w1s SEnstroek and
ae Hss slStS sit'I ~. to tie NeE-Yofk Hospital
JACKSON, GEORGE, age forty OF NO 2I1 East Twenty
ferng fFBI sunstrOke and insensible condition
HIS pulse was scarcely pereeptible, but he slowly
JACOBS WOLF Of No. ca AttOmeysr, prostrated in his
house.
JEROME LEcSARD, a reporter, was Frustrated by the
heat at the Police Central Ofice
JoHNsOS. MARY lhEtyive years. Of East oDe-hun-
ffttef4 e1fi1-
as Greeuwe1 and Nese5-sts., anu was sent 70 CHAM
KArTrz. 2HR1Hi%, Of No. 50 Bayara-zt prostrated in
M streei rssen bone ,roo -, No 1r,a
Tinr1-aye, oml4oyed at Ne 3 IL GhurehIst:. 5 was
refused 10 be taken 70 the hosliisl physician was
called III, and the proper remedies aDPlied. when
seemed 10 afford the patient some relief The phy-
Sician pronounced bin cut Of DANCER.
KHPATElCK, WILLIAM. eaulker OF No 30 M0nrOe-st,
pTOstTatea on vessel at tho iOOt OF Brage-st,
BROOKLYN, and was taken home ambulance.
McDoSAtD, THOMAS thiTty-iiTre, OF No. 554 Ber-
lie was taken home ia an ambulance
MclAUcHEIS, ssRAn, age thtrty-elsat seaDstrs3s Of
No. "a DaTUW-st-, was prOstrated, but was able 70
AfcNIsRoS PETER age thirty-nine of No $50 Greene
81 W;ts overcome by the heat at Greenwich ard
Iss.ads-sta TAKEN 10 the Chambers Street Hospital
MoRAS EDwAED OF one Gy-second-st.
and CouItlaul-avc., overcome at JeTome-ave- and
One-bundred- nd-sixty- -tlir1i-st Taken home q.
IaGses Hospital.
an 0lfcer. and token 20 81. Luke's Hospital -
OGDES, CHARLES. age tbrty-sNfo Teaidng az No 3S5
HOsi4iaI at ) O'ei0cks suffering from sundroke.
EPURK IBARIES, aye forty, OF West 2nsBfng was pros
tralcs AZ b nepOt Of the Long IsiiBd Railroad at
Atlantic and Fla buAh-ayes- brooklyn Taken 10
Ifus Ts,and College Hospital
WALL JOIfN Jgs s.XIeeB ueWsO0Y, OF No Is Miu1agf-
H. firB~E;yn, IFostrafed AZ Fulton Ferry
NALLACE WILLIAM thirty -four Ytars OF No. 23A East
IOrty-sIxtf-S - while the roof OF No. 59l Green
wscs-si OvercOEae by the heat, and was sent TO
CEe CEambers Street Hospital
WILEY EDwARD sOn Of tue gold pen manufacturer, at
NJ. III Nsssau-st, was yesterday prostrated bv
sulsIrrke and taken 20 bis home.
- driver uf a wagon Of the United States Express
Coip0By, sell irUm bi8 wagon ut broadway and
Wa-a, about O'Clock yesterday afternoon, hay-
ing beea Frustrated BY tie beat He was carried
In.o lEc eOBpany's OilicC. wheto by constant appE
caitals Of ice his head and neck he partially
restored, aud be afterWard sent u his home
--, unknown lnau, hve feet eight inches high,
brown hair, brown mixed salt, overcome IN the
Twenty-secOEd Precinct Sent to Roosevelt Hospi-
tai