The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-28
YeIlaH.Feyer In New York.

THE DISEASE CARRIED TO THE CITY BY MEM
| PITS REFUGEEs-DEATH OF ONE PERSON
AND ALARMING ILLNESS OF TWO OTHERS
PRECAUTIONS OF THE BEALTH AUTHORITIES
TO PREVENT A SPREAD OF The FEVER.
NEW YORK, July ga case OF yellow
fever was developed yesterday in the death
OF Mrs. Johanna Brennan, late OF Memphis,
| in an obscure tenement-house in Harlem,
and the attack Of two other persons, who
were sent to quarantine yesterday after
noon. Very properly desiring to prevent
a panic in the city, the attending physician,
Dr:D. g. Cocks, of No. 229 east One. Hun
the Health BoasJ, WssfssssflsSseiy W s yssssieess G.
as to the facts OF the case, and declined'to
give particular Information, but from these
sources and the statements Of the Iand!adyz
the following appear to be the particulars Z
TIE BUILDING, 80
No. 345 east tOne-Hundred-and:N Ninth street,
Is one OF square Of tenement-houses which
possess no sanitary advantage oveEzthose Of
| I be denser quarters OF the city, except in
the fact Of being isolated from the surround
ing scattered wooden buildings, and OF re-
ceiylng fresh breeze from the adjacent
lriver. The buildings are all dilapidated,
! with insufficient ventilation, dark and mar
i row Railways, and contracted rear yards, in
which honest grass disdans to grow. No.
345 stands in the middle Of the frontage on
One-Hun ndred-and-Ninth street, and gives
| shelter to eight families, consisting in all OF
about forty persons.
According to the
STATEMENT OF THE LANDLADY,
which was corroborated by her husband on
Monday last, somewhat late in!the afternoon
man giving his name US Corbett called and
engaged the third floor for few days. He
told her that he had just arrived from an
inland town in Pennsylvania with his fam
| lily and some relatives, and was going back
| to Ireland on the first outgoing steamer.
| The Iandlady had no hesitation in letting
the vacant floor for any term that the tenant
might desire, and on Tuesday the party.
consisting OF eleven persons, moved in and
occupied the floor. None OF them were sick
when they took possession, nor did she know
of any illness among them until Thursday,
when she met DR.. Cocks on the stairs. This
was quite early in the morning. In the al
ternoon DR.. Cocks and Health Officer James
called in company, and the landlady was
told not to visit the people on the third
! floor. All she knows further is that one Of
the women was taken away in coffin at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning, and that the rest
OF the party were placed on board tug
and taken away at 2 o'clock in the after
noon.
FROM DR.. COCKS,
who attended the case, it was learned that
be was called on Thursday morning to see
4 woman at No. 345, who was said to be
suffering from puerperal-fever, consequent
upon miscarriage. AS the symptoms then
appeared, the statement OF course was suffi-
cient to explain them; but suSpectins that
the truth had not been told. and finding
that an examination did not verify the
story, DR.. Cocks questioned Mrs. Corbett
very carefully, and finally obtained the ad-
mission that they had all left Memphis on
Friday morning "a week ago Yesterday and
| had arrived in New York on Monday night.
The party consisted OF eleven persons
namely, the sick woman, Mrs. Johanna
Brennan her two sisters. Mrs. Corbett and
Mrs. Fitzgibbons; their husbands; three
girls of the respective ages Of thirteen, siN-
| teen, and twcnty-one; and Mrs. Corbett's
three children, respectively one, two, and
four years old. .:
THE GIRLS, WHO WERE ORPHANED
by the yelIow-fever epidemic OF last year,
had been adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzsib-
bons, and were on their way to Ireland with
their foster-parents. Mr.. Brennan had re-
mained in Memphis to settle his business
affairs previous 10 joining his wife in this
city. The passage-money TO Queenstown
Ehad already been paid, and the party were
to leave to-day, Mr.. Corbett, who was well
acquainted in New York, having bargained
for the mattresses and other articles OF
an outfit essential to comfortable steer
age life. On Tuesday night Mrs. Brennan
was attacked with violent pains in the
head and limbs. These were followed by a
violent attack of shiyering and ague, which
was succeeded by persistent high fever.
On Thursday afternoon the unfaiing symp-
tom OF black-yomit declared itself, and con-
firmed the suspicious OF DR.. Cocks that the
case was one OF yellow.fever. Mr.. Corbett,
on being cross. examined, now confessed
| that Memphis, not an obscure town in Penn
sylyauia, had heen the home OF the party,
until recently, for several years. DR.. Cocks
reported the affair to the Board Of Health,
and an investigation was Instituted.
Finding
MRS. BRENNAN TOO SICK TO BE MOVED,
ary-Superintenden James isolated the
patient and promptly advised DR.. Wander
pool that the services OF the quarantine tug
were required. At O'clock yesterday
morning, having passed q night Of great
agony, Mrs. Brennan expired. Her re-
mains were, by order Of the sanitary super
iutendent, Immediately inclosed in her
metically- y-sealed metallic coffin and convey
ed to Calvary Cemetery, Mr.. Corbett alone
being permitted to follow the body to the
grave. The household effects and clothing
OF the party were at the same time removed
to the disinfecting depot in Worth street,
and the premises were thoroughly fumi-
gated with sulphur.
In the mean time, on Thursday night,
MRS. FIT zGIBBoNs AND MRS. CoRBETT
began to complain OF Weariness and pains
in the head and limbs, and although positive
SYMPTOMS Of yehow-feyer had not declared
themselves, it was deemed best to isolate
lthem from the rest OF the party, and they
{ were placed in an apartment by themselves,
! where they remained until the tug arrived
from quarantine. They were then: placed
in the forward part Of the boat, the rest oc-
cupying the cabin. and the little tug
steamed down the river at 9 O'Clock in the
afternoon, leaving Harlem in happy lgno-
4 rance OF the fact that yelloY-iever had Just
paid visit to one Of its most squalid tene'
ments. asa.
THE CASES AT NEW YORK.
NEW York, July 26.-Tbe names OF the
Memphis refugees taken to the quarantine
hospital last night are Michael, Bridget,
Mary, and John Corbett. The brother oi
Mrs, Brennan, who was also OF the party
cannot be found, and it is supposed he lef
his family to escape being sent to the hosr.,i
, tal Robert Rind, second mate OF tn