New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-08
NOT A CASE or CHOLERA.
rHE Physicians PUZZLED Avn rUE HFAtrH orFI-
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rHE pHYsIctANs PUZZLED Avn THE HFAtTH ORR
CFRs CALLED IS-Ppon,BLY Nor CHOLERA.
The dead wagon on sunday evening drove MP 90
ihr Reception Hoapital for I'm e"tious Disease at
the Foot of East ~iy'oeuth-st. and collin c0ntan-
ing th' body If mln about forty years Old was
h'trd nn- and taken tp room in tine aastcrn end -
the little building. an official ~ the Health pn-
parimnnt. who accompanied the wagon. informed
Nr Burns who ma. charge of the Reception Hose
pifal Tint The body was that of james Nlughnn,a
brickiaYer who bad hrona patient In the Nev-i1rf
H'7n't0l for Rvol1i itya. ITO di'd ON sunday Of
t'ruonn, of what disrn tho doctors ron not de-
ietnino. but the ywpfous were so susniriuualy
hhe 'hulcrl that thc physician in charge had dc
toruiued to iufrn lba uenlh Department. The
dead wauon was cent ut once to convey thr body to
tho foot Of EaaI s.2tornth-at
Nothing waa aaiI b. tir Health Depart oent va--
'"rllr NJ % onaa of rul.,nlo ch.luh hi bee tna
uN. but iur thr figt chat lato un .audlY uish|
two f0oui1 of th- d'Al mln went to fho Reception
Hospital 60 HrfHfo tha body rfohaUly nothing
would have houn snj nhoHt 90. Wien hropri Iuina
rfnaad Formulation to Nansh1n'a frlruda 90 aar
away las body, uu rlr upuul thal 10 Wa Thought
thai h.h d. ath wa, dYe c, cholera, flr two men
took np hrr 1tl4d tAe nearest street corner and
talked over tAr 4u-I with the policeman on the
beat
Ne wanted o. send his body Co his home m CO.
hoes whore his hruth,r-in-l2w lives. but We are
told he hal cholera said John Appel whose home
Is an seventh-aye. don't believe he had
cholera
1or the men went away. Several persons who
had overhca ard the conversation said il WIS an
outrage TO lot person suspected of cholera lie for
hours ina tnicAY pUpuia' e part of this great city,
hko that adjacent 10 tAe East River at Slxteenth-st
he rumor spread and cousteina anu une1si-
ness be an to,lii,ct he people IN the nelgIborhOOd
lttNfdly when luqulrles were made OF Keeper
Burns, he tod IN. people that the Health Depart
ment had invest gated the case, and found that
Naughan's death not due TO cholera. This some
what aLaycd the fear, but people in the
vicinity were still discussing the incident
last night when a IKBUNE reporter pulled the bell
by the side Of the little wooden gaze which forms
The entrance 10 the Reception Hospital. Keeper
Burns answered The bell and told the reporter that
Naughans body sui lay in the bnlding await
lnE the action OF MS friends. Inc Health De-
rartmeut doctors had tod HIM 10 d.iycr
the body 10 the friends they were satisfied after
examination that other causes than cholera let m
his death. think his death was due 70 d fall
from q building" said Mr. Burns 20 TIE reporter
heu the reporter sought information Al rhe
N'N-lOrk Hospital concerning Ndu5 nan
sickness and death, Dr. Wright. the
physician IN charge. sent WORK that he
had J-eu directed oy ,he Board OF bealth 20 send
all inquIre-s ab0dt tine case To- them. vaughan
had walked into the institution alone ro Dee treated.
More THAN this ne would not yOuclsa4e.