New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-14
RAVAGES OF FEVER IN BROOKLYN.
ESPECIALLY PREVALENT IL ONE NEIGHBOkHooD
WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY

WHAT PHYSICIANS SAL
Tvnhoid fever is increasing IN Brooklyn despite
81 aa1orIs Of uhvsiclans and the Health Board 10
rreycut its spread. In the district ln'HtloH'u IN
TIE TRIBUNE two weeks ago as containing tWehtN
cases of the disease there are at present over MY
nersouS i'll with the fever. lhclc nave
been already SIX deaths from II there MI.
Mackey of TaT Es f Edf I IS G boaadcd b
Union, Hoyt and Henry SIS ana second pllct.
I'm President ST. there four or I'VE cases ne wee
Uoyt aud Smith sts., four between CLINTON ana
Co1rt ais and three or four between Clinton ana
Henry SIS. There are half a dozen cases III Iml"h-
ST. several in HOyt-st two or three III Carroll-Si,,
some new ones in First place and dQZen or more
in and around Second place. Wmle the leVeI docs
rot prevail thrOu2 hout the city to the same alaI
inc degree IT is certainly unusually prevalent; one
physician told a TRIBUNE reporter that ne hau Il
dozen patients III various parts suffering from 'hc
disease. Ill ,;1o, IN +hoir o,;,,iore
respecting the causes of the prevalence OF the
disease The theory first advanced, that the per
sous afflicted had been poisoned al SUMMER holciS
nv defective drainage, etc, can no longer Oe con-
sidcrcd satisfactory explanation, since theIe are
dozans of persons SICK with the disease who dld not
Leave tie city during the summer. Besides the
suppositon that all country resorts ana
hotels are lnsuticiently drained can
scarcely be regarded as reasona9le
one Dir Watts theory, that the existence OF the
complaint is largely due to the decayng leaves III
the streets which so closely paved a. 10 prevent
the surface water from s2akhg Rna,d has gxc
special attention to sweeping the streets OF Iatei
and ali vegetable matter Is more carefully looked
IA
the sewers and advocate flushing and dlsiniectng
ali the sewers of the city, particularly thOse III the
afflicted portions OF III. l.,
A leading physician of Brooklyn said Yesterday
81 don't see ANYTHING remarkable IN the unusual
visitation of typhoid fever TINS ial thluk IL Is
largely due TO the weather and VIII continue uh'li
tho dscLse are destroyed by either intense cola OF
hoat Hence we 90 not have many cases IN the
winter or summer 1t is when tne leaves nI,i hUu ~
decay and cOutamlnate the surface water winch IN
turn poisons wells and reservoirs that tho DIS
ease hourishes. 1t seems TO me ihat our
water system IN Brooklyn not
sufficiently guarded against this danger,
for "A danger il certainly is and Serious one 100
You remember what a time they had at the f"rt
Edward Institute some years ago III consequence OF
a well beng poisoned by decaymg leaves that had
b.en carried INTO il by rain. Princeton Coiiege
had SIMILAR experience only short Time since zee,
Another cause is sewer gas. Why. what are our
fine houses on the Heights but so many receptacIes
for these deadly vapoIsf Some urge that since
sewer gas is lighter than ar IL VIII ASCEND oG
sure n will, Dut II is m dong SO through
our rooms that he damage is done, eSpecially wen
onr apartments are tightly closed as Is 100 Ire
onentiy the case Our large sewers are not properly
trapped many of them. indeed are h9t uap pea at at
all This Is a great mlstakr. lhcy shoulu an p "
trapped like household waste pipes, duu eaI I
trap provided with az escape pipe Ie'uIne 10 III.
street surface where the gas might escape WITHOUT
Injurlng any one. Typhoid fever Is not t COZ
tsgious disease that mas IONS Oes snd that
makes II almost us dangerous. About one man III q
thousand knows the difference between inc 'eiin'
contagious and INFECTIOUS as Vuus aPpiICu' ~
reflections disease is one that only be trans
Initted from one person TO another by the AVN,
elections Il CONTAGIOUS disease is one the germs u
Which arc thrown OH by the skin or the BREATH
Charles L. Zlegler died yesterday at BIS home
No - First place. at the age OF thirty: lie was
victim OF typhoid malaria and was SICK only tnIe'
DAYS lie was an active Republican OF the SlXtl
Ward and a brother of William ii. Iiegler, wh'
has represented the ward in the Republican Genera
Committee. He was in BUSINESS with his father
with whom lie lived.
HEAVY SENTENCES FOR RIVER THIEVES.
Michael Brophy the steward of the tugboat I'd
win Hawley, lay asleep in his bunk after mldniRh
on August 81 when be was awakened by nOis
on deck lie put his head out OF the cabin window
and saw a man tTyIlg 10 force open the aitc
hatch. The steward shouted at the man. Du
another man, a companion OF the first one, told tn
steward TO 20 to his bunk or he would blow hi
bralus out and threatened to murder HIM II IA
ha ffer ard sncceeQe6