The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-13
VOL. 3--NO. l56.
SEVEN I CHILDREN DEAD.


EEfEH IN WEST END.
The Terrible Rssssis OF Confinement o
School Children In. = Filthy Tene
ment az NIarion-k Hotel with His
tory = Action OF the Authorities
The widest excitement prevails on Hud
son City Hill over the scarlet-fevsr scourg
that has broken out in the little cluster O
houses on the west side Five children
are dead in one family, two il
another, and the probabilities are tina
while the TATTLER has been on its way tt
the press other deaths have occurred
TATTLER reporter last night went intt
the infected districts, and cleaned sucl
information as could be secured. The dis
ease just made its appearance in the family
of Joseph Hanley, who lives on Meade
avenue. He is a peripatetic oil dealer, anG
went from house to house IN the Hudson
City and South Bergen districts after the
scourge had settled upon his household.
Last Sunday his nine-year old daughter
Sarah showed signs of sickness, and by
Monday she was in the full glow of the dis
ease. DR.. Parker, of Bergen and Duncan
avenues, attended her but found that she
was suffering from the most malignant
type of the disease. and that SO far from
being able to save her, it would be next to
impossible to keep her brothers and sisters
free of the Infection. The little girl died
on Wednesday morning, and her ten-year-
old sister Katie, who had been taken down
in the meantime, went to the grave before
midnight. Maggie, eleven years of age,
was Frustrated Thursday morning, and by
night she had died. Friday two other
children of the family, and the only two
remaining, were stricken, and yesterday
morning they were added to the list of the
dead.
A family named Greenwood, of No. Al
Wales avenue, was in the meantime battling
with the scourge. The eldest child, a boy,
Rynert by name, was the firstt to be stricken.
He died yesterday afternoon, while one of
the TATTLRR reporter was IN the house
making inquiries about his health. An
other, Ernest, was then apparently in the
agOnies of death.
Malignant lever has also made its appear
ance in the families of Mr. Howard, of No
Is Wallace avenue, and of Mr.. Simmer
macher, of No. 81 Wales avenue. Children
of other families are complaining of what
seem to be the first symptoms of attack,
and the probability of an epidemic is all
but encouraging.
The fever was at first thought to have
been caused by the dumping of offaI at a
point short distance from the Henley
residence, but the spot was visited by
Health Inspector Benjamin, who reports
that there has been no dumping there in
six weeks, and that the true cause of the
disease is the filthy condition of School No.
Is.
The school was formerly kept in an iso-
lated house which gave scant accommoda-
tons for the large number. of scholars.
The new Jersey City School Board, in or
der to increase the accommodations, leased
three rooms IN the old st. James Hotel, at
Marion, in which twenty-five or thirty
families live. Inspector Benjamin reports
that one of these school rooms containing
the primary scholars, is only eighteen by
twenty, with two windows and one DIOR
In this room ninety-fve children are daily
crowded. Immediately beneath the school
rooms ar. a seated the privy vaults, and
most sicEGdlng smell from them pervades
the entire building. The Inspector said to
O reporter: 81 never smelled more dead,
petrd odor than did in this class ROOM
have no doubt that their sickness was due
to the foul odors invading the Room from
below. [ have written to City School
Superintendent Edison requesting request
ing to close the school until January /,
believe he has complied with my request"
The city health authorities said last
evening that all that the health authorities
can do is to advise no public funerals, and
the interment of tue bodies as speedily and
privately as possible give az 1uch pub
lefty as possible to the infected locality
and fumigate the premises. The three
children of Mrs. Hanley, who were first
Duneo, naa . puunv :. luL We o ~ WHICH 1
m Z, were ailcws y. " 70 plesen., anu
the intermene was II %. 5e's a:s CelheLeIy.
Two others OF me oeau cnliurel were
buried YESTERDAY. Dr. Falker AZ ende tne
danley cnlldren ana u ascending tne SUI