New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-12
SMALLPOX SPREADING IN PATERSON.

SMALLPOX SPREADING IN PATTERSON.
Another death from smallpox WAS reported 10 tne
Health authorities of Paterson, N. j.. YESTERDAY
morning 1t occurred at the pest house, the Vclli
being Mary McCabe, age seven ms was Ine 'nlIu LIZ
death among the STA children who were taken out
of Barbours row of tenement houses i'll Slaterst
Her sister Anne is very low and 1t Is feared that
her case will also result fatally. -Four now cases
were reported, not counting several suspects.
One of these was n man named Wldmer. foreman
in silk mill and living at NO 81 II0specCst'
Another was u servant, Sarah llallOu IN the mouse
of James lluntOon in East Iwenty-hfth-st. i DIE
is the first case III the Fourth Ward Every Naru
in the city has now been visited by the pestIsnGc.
Mr.. HuntoOn's house is on what is known as tne
east sidc." n surburb of the city built up WITHIN
the last two years nearly all of the buildings '9ee
are occupied by people of moderate wealth. me
other were reported by the patients then
selves. In the forenoon two men VINO hl't ocon
begging in the streets went TO the ponce st"tioh
broken out with an eruption lhey were qu W. .
tined III a coal shed until City Physician Ny ers
arrived and sent them To the pes; l0tlSc lhc} eaNo
their names as john Gepson anu lnpinas o
Immigrants, who had arrived IN TINS Guy on q
steamer of the National Line week ago. lnoy
said that they had been sent To Paterson oy lhe au
thorties in NewYork. and that there hau oyen sew
eIal cases of smallpox on the steamer. i MS ai-
nOuncement made the health oinccrs OF ia'eIson
very indignant. and they are investigating Ihe ahaI
City Physician Myers, Assistant wy fhyslclalt
Uurd Health Inspector Newton and then assistants
are almost worn out with their laborS and WIN
anuoyanccs from the people reporting suSpocteu
cases; Sruarantined sOIekceperS demanding TO ne
allowed to opcn their PAGES. reporters InquIllng
for the latest news aud persons anxious 10 DC
vacciuated. The supply OF vaccine matter gave
out on Saturday night and free vaccination had 10
be suspended until yesterday. at the pest house
Dir. Townsend. of this city, is proving hlniseII
possessed OF good executive ability, ana ne Is apy
seconded by superintendent GraNcS. lie chloI'tS
necessary rules with iirmnCsS, and unhcSltatlngly
knocked down a diS0hedicnt suspect on sun
day. The authorities have decided 10 chapge the
name of the Pest House to the Paterson city Hospital
for CONTAGIOUS Diseases ana they have requested
the local newspapers to refer to it by that ltle
There tC be deficiency i'll the form oL guards
mt the hospital An inmate named h0ort, iol-
lancer. managed tC escape en- sunday evening ana
was net returned until about three hours ana halt
later He was Iecaptured by the ambulance attend
ant near the hospital. and tine authorties stated
that lie had not been down In the city. III became
known however. that hc had heca wandering
through the streets, severn people having seen nm
in various places. They relate that he covered MS
face, all broken ont ~ II was with his hands Wheh
he met them. The attendants III charge assert that
KoOlt got out on the preteXt that he wanted 10 -
10 an outbuilding ana that he wasmissc almost IN
mediately He was not delrious, bui SAID tlat n
did not like the accommodations and was gonna 10
look for better clearinghouse. koort is the same
man who on Friday last walked mo the police
station to report his case, ana stood Tor TINE
unobservcd III the midst OF crowd ol Hboul TWO
hundred people, who WeTo waiting thelr Turns 1"
I've Varcinatcd. Another SmaIlpl patient, JOhn
Uonney, had done the same thing few days
before, and the almost daily recurrence OF some
such instance of the general exposure of many
neope makes the residents gloomy IN their view OF
the future. The pest house accommodations are 50
limited that large number OF the known ana suS,
perted victims are "uuarantinrd at tbeu homes"
and as the infected households must be supplied 10y
butchers. bakers and other DurvcyOTs OF neceSsa-
ries for il is generally Thought that while the health
authorities doing all mat they can with the
means at their command, the chances ~ cOhtagon
being spread are very great Injected houses are
now scattered widely. though spafscy through the
city and no one can tell where the disease viii
break ont next. In addition TO the unaN 0ldabe
trouble OF having to run aftersuspccted cases, which
tuI out to be trivial and not at all resembling the
dreaded disease, the city physicians have been even
made the victims of wretched practical Jokes being
sent after cases which mad no existence except in
the imaginatons of The perpetrators. Assistant
CITY Ph, stefan Ilurd sent to a house IN River
st. on Sunday on an errand of this klnd. where
he found a number of wOmeu IN possession, who
proved to him before he had time 10 escape that
their tongues at least. were in vigorous condition.
The Roman Catholic paIOchial school managers
have followed the eXamplciof theBoard Of Education
and closed the schools for n week. some Gcstltu-
ton has been caused among poor families the men
being thrown ont of work, and the bureau of
Health which has been assisting such, has now
stopped. raising the question whether such sup
plies should not come through tue regular channel
the Bureau of Charities and Correction.