The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-23
DR. ROTH'S ODD PATIENT.
How Was This Pretty Italian Girl
Burned So That She Will Die?

AL .LL
An italian m called at DR..
Phillip Roth's residence, in Newark,
Yesterday afternoon and asked him to
visit an Italian girl who was sick at
her mothers's residence in the rear Of
No. 2S7 Van Buren, street. The doctor
was told that the girl was very sick
and he went Immediately to the
house.
Upon his arrival he found a girl
lying in a bed covered with a piece of
bed clothing and moaning terribly,
and upon examination he found that
his patient had been terribly burned
on the breast, legs and hands, and
that she was also suffering from pneu-
mpnia and was likely to die at any
moment. The doctor was told by O
boy who spoke English quite well that
the, girl, Angela Morella, aged even
teen wears, on Friday last vas SEM to
pick coal at the scavenger dumps on
Malvern street. While there three
young men came up behind her and
set fire to her clothing with a bundle
Of straw which one of them lighted
with a piece of paper.
The girl, who is decidedly good
looking, said:-'sI was picking coal
over on the dumps. There was a
crowd of boys there, but they did not
modest me. | vas STOPPING over when
q boy whom / do not know (he was
not Italian) came up behind me and
lit a piece OF paper with which he in
tended to start a fire. The paper
blew away from him, and before 1
could arise had set fire to my cloth
ing. 1 became frightened and started
to run away. Two men were crossing
the lots and they eXtinguished the
flames. My clothing was all burned
off with the exception OF my sack.
One of the men procured an old shawl,
which was wrapped around my lower
limbs, after which they sent me
home
DIR. Roth stated that the girl could
not live. Internal Inflammation had
already set in and the girl would die
from that il she recovered from the
pneumonia.
La Grippe and the Insurance Companies.
The epidemic of la grippe has had a
material effect on the industrial insur-
ance companies. The number of death
sIaims has been unusually heavy durs
Ingethe past few weeke. A popularity
inythesea claims lis the unusual number
of adults that have died recently. AT
this time of the yearsthe death rate of
adults that have died recently. AT
Ahisltime of year the rate of adults is
always heavier, as they more readily
sucoumb to exposure to the weather
and resultant colds. But this winter
there is q much larger percentage of
such cases.
At the Prudential Office in Newark d
reporter was informed that since Jan
aary | q very large percentage OF
deaths, as shown on the claims pre-
sented at their Office, resulted from
pneumonia, which in many cases the
phi yhsGans stated was caused by in
iuH}Ea. The amount paid by this
company on death claims during the
Jthree weeks from January ! has been
Z steadily increasing.
The first week $41, 900 was paid, the
second week 500, 900, and last week
s61, 600. For the same weeks last
year the amounts were SSes55, GG669 G, $33l 9009
and $22, 900, showing q great falling
off in the third week last year, while
this year there was a marked increase.
The Prudential paid 6SS claims last
week, against 260 claims during the
corresponding week last year.
1t was reported at the office of the
United States Insurance Company
that the amount paid during the past
week was fully double that paid in
any former week. The increase in
the number of claims was not SO great,
but the large amount showed that the
deaths We're mostly of adult persons.
In than half of the cases where
claims We're presented it was said
death resulted from pneumonia.
Tie Cnngrassmau from the First.