Evening journal., 1890-01-03
LA GRIPPE AND SUICIDE
The Influenza Epidemic Causes
Many Self Murders.
FIVE GRIPPE SUICIDES IN A DAY.

The Russian nIaiady Il Epidemic in New
York-Many Deaths at the Metropolis
and over 1000 People In.-The Dis
ease Abroad.
NEW YoRK. Jan. 3.-Grimly serious and
altogether beyond laughing m after ha
become the reign in this city Of influenza
or the grippe, = with its dangerous concom.
liant maladies. Besides a score Of unsoughi
deaths in or near New York yesterday di
rectly or indirectly attributable to the
grippe four cases OF suicide were reported
here and fifth from New Haven that ar,
supposed to have resulted from sickness OF
dementia caused by the grippe
Epidemic in New York.
That the malady which has made such
widespread and fatal ravages in Europe Il
epidemic in this city there is no longer the
shadow Of a doubt Even the board Of
il, and has issued bulletin advising ex
traordinary care by everybody in the mat
ter Of health.
The Health boards Warning.
The bulletin reads. "The increased death
rate of the diseases unfavorably influenced
by the prevailing epidemic Of influenza EN-
phasizes the Importance of the employment
of physical care on the part Of all, healthy
and diseased alike Exposure to the infu
ences Of extremes Of temperature should bt
avoided, especially by the aged and thoss
who are afflicted with pulmonary diseases
Persons suffering from "coldn or from sus
4 u
at once. The aged and infrm should avoiC
as far as possible personal contact will
/ those already afflicted with influenza
FULLY 1000 Cases.
| Dr. Cyrus Edison, of the board Of health
said yesterday afternoon that there weri
fully 100, 600 cases of the .grippe in the city
He thinks it is contagious and that before i
has spent its force every adult person vii
come in for a share OF the sneezng Tn
total number of police sick is 343, exactly Il
per cent of the force.
Four Suicides Caused by Influenza.
The cases Of suicide above referred Il
were as follows: Mrs. Ellen Carroll, ageC
80, of No. 2i5 East Ninety-eight street, in
fit of delirium induced by her suffering
from an aggravated attack Of the influenza
flung herself from third story window ang
4 was instantly hlAASds AhSiH StSIir w hr iAN
tie doubt that the fever which caused he
delirium had its rise in bad cold, with al
the pecnlarities Of the grippe Mrs Saral
A. McAuliffe, who was for several year
matron Of the women's wards at the Tomb
prison. was found dead in the East river, a
the foot OF East Sixtioth street The ind
cations were that she jumped into the rive
while temporarily demented from the r,
suits Of the grippe
Naro Buro Thuda, a Jap, who worked
Henry G. Parke's Japanese porcelain fal
tory, No. 80 East Thirty-third street, an
who killed himself in closet there yeste
day afternoon by cutting his throat with
short, thick razor OF Japanese make, is SUI
posed 70 have been melted 70 the act
grippe aggravated by a spree. Mr.
Margaret Steneck died yesterday at he
home in the third fat Of No. 226 Eai
Thirty-ninth street from the effects Of par
I green poison, swallowed with suicidal inter
on Tuesday night. Her friends believe thi
her death resulted directly from despondenC
occasioned BY the grippe
Many Deaths in New York.
Richard Reinilse and a man named Kloc
terborn died Of pneumonia, induced by i
fiuenza, at st. Francis hospital yesterda
Other deaths in which influenza had haI
!, were those Of John b. Rent, of 62 West Mn
teenth street; Rev. Adoldh Rubin, Of Il
Temple EMANUEL; J. f. Morrow, a barbe
and two policemen, w. J. Knox and Micha
Dowd. Eight policemen have thus far di
! Of the Influenza About 100 out Of 900 Broo
! ! lyn policemen are laid up with the disease