The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-02
WORK OF 4HH GRIPP
How It Is Affecting the
Places Where Many are
Assembled.
1T is PREVALENT EVERYWHERE.
But Then It Is Not Such a Serious
Drawback to Business asSome
Suppose.

kerchool Kerchool La Grippei Sour
dispositionl Perditioni This is what
some of our citizens have to say Of the
IN dnenza' A red nose today is as fash-s
lonable and as frequently seen on the
face Of Prohibitionist as on graduate
from Jacky Lynch's wayside resort. This
is a boon to the graduate and he reioices
accordingly.
The epidemic is not necessarily a serious
one, but beyond question it has been the
cause Of some deaths from pulmonary
causes.
deaths from pneumonia and other SIM
liar diseases to the number of sixty were
reported to Deputy Registrar Philips fof
the month Of December
MS morning made some enquiries TIA
ascertain whether the grip was to any
extent interfering with business. Chief
Murphy told me that he had twenty -eight
men SICK from 1t, ana that last week
there We're more men sick in the depart
ment than had ever been before during q
month.
AMONG THE FIRFMEN.
Chief Engineer Farrier said the firemeu
nave the grip severely Three men Ia
Engine Company No. 8, two in No. 10 and
one IN No. are seriously sick and many
in other companies suffer from it.
There are thirty cases of the disease re-
| ported at Matthiessen & WiecherS sugar
rennery, or about two per cent of the
number OF employees.
The Jersey City and Bergen Railroad
Company reports that the Greenville end
| OF the road had twenty men laid up and
| the other bFaasches Of the road had
twenty-one men sick from grip.
| The JERSEY CRY NEWS has nfteen men
| sick with the grip.
Superintendent Poland hos been cot<
! nned 10 mis- house for several daEs fr<k,l
the grlp. He said ne had no idea 1foy,
prevalent 1t was among the teachers i M
i pupils because Of the existing hol5f3a,
4 vacation. "a
AT the Pennsylvania Railroad deDot ID
one seemed to know who was sick OF hoy,
many, ppt half a dozen heads Of de
| pertments said it was safe to say d third
| Oh the employees had the grin more Il
les& severely. At the A1rnshsuse. Snalys
| HIN 1t is said that there has l,apn 81
marhed prevalence of the disteAi ptsr arsf
| that there mad been no dangerous cases
IN THE ERIE SHOPS.
| I'VE have probably about four HUNDRED
men in the machine and accompar,virf,
| shops" saidSa foreman of the Erie sllnna
corner of Eleventh and Provost streets
There have been number of cases q,
infuenza, or grippe. but i don't thinI
| the number viii exceed twenty. Some
have simple colds, bur whoever is unfie,
the weather now thinks he has ths
| grippe. We have no more men on ths
sick list than is usual at this season 81
! the year,
At Winter & Balls umbrella and can.
establishment, corner7S5 troye ami mir
| teenth streets, there are about fyyc
hundred employees. The suherintendeni
informed me that there had been only
i've or six cases OF the disease In fhe
establishment, none of which yyera
| serious.
At the Abattoir found Superinter<,ay,
| 5. II. Smith eating his lunch at the taT.5
| In reply to my questions he said: nNa
have about four hundred men engaged
| here, and about two hundred and fifts
| HackeDsack.
| We have had all told, about fifteEM 81
or eighteen men in the entire lot, attacked
| by the disease. bat there has been moth
ing serious in any of the cases. We are
pretty healthy"
I DR.. Gordon, when I asked him If the
| epidemic had been noticed to any extent
| in Lorillard's tobacco factory. replied NO
| for the factory had been practically shut
\ down since Christmas to enable an ac-
| count of stock to be taken.
! He would not know how much the
] grip had effected the employees before the
| first of next week. The morning work
was resumed In some of the departments,
and by next week all the hands will be
busy.
HERE IT DOES HARM
| At the Passaic Zinc Works fifteen out
of the 220 hands are incapacitated for
work by the grip, and one of the firemen
was forced to quit at noon.
The average of hand afflicted with the
| disease employed by the Gripping Iron
1 Company is one to ten.