The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

died at No. 215 Thirteenth street, DR..
kopetchany was the attending physician.
In answer to my queries. the Doctor
said
Il do not believe that Mrs Simms'
death was due to bad sewerage, as the
house has only recently been built, and
the plumbing had been well done. !
think that Mrs. Simms contracted her
disease outside of the building. This
building is one of the cheaper kind of
Hats now being erected in our city. The
condltlon OF the water closets in this
building is not of the best All the ten
ants use the same closet. There was also
very had odor in Mrs. Simms' kitchen,
and the surroundings were not calculated
TO be pleasant, but / do not think that the
disease was contracted in the house or
that 1t was due to imperfect plumbing OF
stagnant water.n
On the 18th of December William J.
King, aged seventeen years, died at S18
Grand street. DR.. John Heating attend
ed him.
BRED IN THE SWAMP.
do know how young King contract
ed the diseaSeW DR. Heating asked of
me last evening. Yes King was en-
ployed as book-keeper in cane factory
located in swamp on the boundary line
OF Hoboken. He worked there from
nine O'Clock in the morning Nntil five in
the evening. No. SIS Grand street is one
of the healthiest portions of the city, and
have no reason TO believe that the dis
ease originated there. / doA't see why
the disease does not make more havoc
than it does in the neighborhpod of Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets, where
some of the buildings are in horribly
filthy condition.
DR. Vreeland, in speaking of the case
of Mary Otterson, eighteen years of age,
in st. Francis Hospital, on December %,
said that he knew nothing or the home of
the patient whatever. The sanitation of
the hospital was all right He said that
Thomas Langty was dying when adj
mitted and died the following day.
HIS HOME ON A DUMPING GROUND.
Joseph j. Bellair, a ten -year-old boy, of
NO. 81 Paramount avenue, was the only
one of the three whom he attended at
the home, which, he said, is a frame
house located on an old dumping ground,
but which is now a salt meadow.
He is of the opinion that there is moth
ing In the atmosphere Of the place that
would breed the disease, one reason being
that the place is a salt meadow. The
sewers, so far as he knew, are as good as
those elsewhere.
James H. Ford, of No. 80 Atlantic
street, died on December 10, aud was at
tended by Dr. e. i. Bull, who told me
that the house is a comparatively new
one and is in brick row.
A PLAGUE SPOT.
The house, he believes, is owned by Mr..
Ford's father-in law, and seems to be in
good condition, and the surroundings are
healthy, except in one case.
NO 55 is in the same row." the doctor
said; "and until few days past was
boarding house, The lady who Kept it
told the doctor that there had been sew
eral cases of the fever, and one of diph-
liberia, and one death at the house
In the rear of the yard is an clubhouse,
which is in fearful condition, the floor
having fallen in, and the contents of
which are exposed 10 the air. He has re-
ported the matter to the Board of Health.
He finds il hard to account Tor the disease
being in the city, especially as the cases
which he had were among the better
classes. He has no cases on hand now.
THE CAUSE UNKNOWN.
DR.. Parker sad he cannot give any
reason why little Grace DoIr, who died of
the disease at No. 35 Church street De-
cember 4, caught the disease, for the
house where her parents live is in good
neighborhpod and to his stGlief in good
sanitary condition, and there seems to be
no reason why she should get it.
In conclusion he said that he does not
know that the disease is worse this year
than in some years past and he does not
fear an epidemic.
All that is known of the man Henry
Shebb, who died in Christ Hospital, is
that he was sick there for several days.
DR.. George Wilkinson gave the certifi-
cate Of death as to Adolph Brunock, who
died December "a. at No. 124 Pine street,
Lafayette. The doctor said last evening
that he had attended him only for two
days before death, and that he was NOT
familiar with the history of the case The
house was brick one in good sanitary
condition, and the air so lar as he knew
was healthy.