The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-19
Is TYPHOID EPIDEMIC?
The County Board to Pre-
pare an Infection Map.
LIST OF DEATHS LAST MONTH
Ine Indications are Tina! the Death
Rate Will be Larger
This Month.

The County Board OF Heslth has gen
to three hundred physicians in the ccunts
! calling their attention to the rnusra
prevalence CT typhoid fever here, ane
Rsking them to Immediately report any
Gases that have. come under their notice
81 a report OF typhoid fever has never here
toforc been required, and it is not ciassec
with such Contagious diseases as typhus oi
scarlet fever; but owing TO its prevailing
nuw to such an alarming extent, the
Ecard OF Health will take prompt action.
SPECIFIC LOCALITIES NoTEo.
IT was for this reason that an examina'
ricn into tho sanitary condition OF The
school building has been ordered and
thai inspector Keilt was directed TO make
# Et once an examination OF the houses on
Astor piaee and Beinen5 aver.:!e, lno~c
than oue Funded houses. The Inspector
viii I;sy sasecit,l attention in bis :nvestl-
Cation 10 drainage and how many houses
e3ill.y latos one drain pipe aud what tue
.lpe Is made q, ana also now mach sick
ness tasie has been there fo; two months
Past.
T!e Health Board also directed that
shc same kinti of an investigators Do
:silae .. the houses on Storm avenue,
1: om Bergen avenue to Submit avenue,
ay.nac and Ocean avenue.
siuSI IN TIRE FIFTH DISTRICT.
9len Dr. GtcrdoE waS explaining to
the BOARD his views OF the typhcM cpl
Cs;uic, ii it may he SO called, he said thGt
ia end about AstCr rlace and Belmont
aseguc severa. deaths iad recently taken
place, said tc bc caused by the fever. fle
sYt,i further tnat the greater portion OF
the disease la the county was located i'll
the Fifth District, and IL was mystery to
kim why that should be, for the same
water is'drank in other parts OF the city.
CLERK Rooney informed the Health
Board that twenty cases OF typhoid fever
had been reported for the month of No
ya,nber, seventeen of these cases being in
Jersey City and the other three about the
c5anty He said that the Deputy Regis
trsss had not reported for December, and
wG.fld not much before January 6.
There is every reason to bel1eVe tnat the
des.h rate from this disease is greater for
Dcsember than November.
THE DEATHS IN NOVEMBER.
Among those who died from typhoid
fever in November ares
George Neuscheler, aged %, Town of
Union, November 80.
Charles Ruck, aged 25, No. $50 Avenue
ID, lSayonne, November IA.
Annie Armaganio, aged %, 403 Third
street, November s.
Elise G. Hunson, aged s, No. 731 Ocean
avenue, November ID.
Henry Kehr, aged 40, No. 113 Golden
street. November 12
John Manu. age 81. No. 1853 Provost
street, November l3.
May Dwyer, age so, No. 491 Grove
street, November IL.
Charles B. Aten, age 33, No. 286 Fifth
street, November Is.
Felicia Makonska, aged IL, No. 304
Seventh street.
Lillian M. Smith. age is, No. 453 Ber-
gen avenue, November 18.
Annie S. Gulhert, age so, No lis Wayne
street. November g.
Daniel Foley, aged "a, No. 1853 Sixteenth
asrcet, November Z.
John Douglas Reid, age 4, No. IS Pali-
sade avenue, November 80.
William Alorboise Speckman, age 28,
10. 20 Linden avenue, November IA.
Susan Carls Stephens age 62, No. 1853
York street, November 10.
Oliver Bradley Petit, age IS, No. 1872
Fairview avenue, November 21.
John A. Morse, age, z, No. ia Storm
avenue, November 10.
The death rate for the county and city
from all diseases is light, being for the
county but 20 2-10 per cent, and for the
city 19 40 per cent.
AN INFECTION MAP.
In view of locating the fever breeding
district Clerk Rooney has been instructed
to prepare a map OF the city and each case
of contagious disease will be located in
colored ink upon the map.