New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27
DIPHTHERIA N PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
THE DISEASE IN II FAMILIES or JANIToRS
FRIGHTENs PARENTS.

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posideots Of Harlem who send their children q
Grammar school 40. 40, AZ T|cutrave. and ouc-hun-
Crcl. and wcnty-ninth-st, were excited yesterday by
the information that one child In The family 81 Joih
+. stats, the janiior. had died from MALIGNANT
dinbther,a in tho school building and that another
child who was suffering from the same disease h"d
been removed 10 a hospitJ. over 1000 children nave
attended the school. which has Il lirrc primary d.
partmcnt. Janitor s,aats and his family have lived
in room, in the basement On Friday his baby girl
died after a brief Hines, and a physician Who lad
bC,n called in attendance sent word 10 the Health
Board that the child's death had been caused by
malignant diphthcrla. DR.. Cyrus Ld,on on saturday
sent sanitary Inspector MORGAN Morris 10 make an
Investigation, and DR.. Morris found >taat''' little boy
three years old. sick with the disease. The body Of
the dead child was buried that day and the sick boy
was sent 10 the Willard Parker Hospital in East six
feminist. Stats was I'll with pleuIt-y and he was
removed 10 a room on the top toor II the building.
III, apartments In the basement were fumi-at"d. a,
there was 10 school on Monday Dr. MorIi, and two
other sanitary inspectors went there and spent part
Of tho day disinfecting the rooms In all parts 81 tho
building.
On Tuesday V. II. j.. slcbc-c. tn, school principal,
heard OF the sickness and death in the %iaaitoT, family
and send word to the Ioari Of Eiucation. Later inc
was seen by DR.. Morris, who assured him that there
was 10 danger 70 the children attending the school
some Of the teachers expressed fears that their pupil,
might catch d~iphthcra In the cliss-room~, ana on
wednesday the school was clo.cd AT noon 10 give the
sanitary Inspectors opportunity TO fumlg1'c all the
rooms again. The temporary closing OF the school
spread the Information that there had been ~dipAthcria
there. The school was open aglln YESTERDAY.
Dr.. Thson said &" The excitement IN Harlem on ac-
count Of the presence 81 d%lphthcsla in The school t.
unnecessary, because there is 10 danger OF an
epidemic. Every Hcclcd pvcautiou against a spread
of the disease has been taken. The school building
las been d~islnicctcd thoroughly under The supervision
Of ira ted inspectors and is "a, sa'e - it /, possible 10
make it. l am not in favor q having Janitors'
families In school building. Within a a year there
have been half Il dozen cases 81 dlpAthcfla IN The
rooms Of ianitors IN public schools We remove such
eases promptly and d|i-inlcct the building, thoroughly
and 10 harm comes to the children VINO attend tho
schools. but It would be better Ii such case, were
made impossible by permitting 10 children OF IanitoF,
TO live In the school hgildiuge.'
Another case Of diph;heria in a public school WIS
discovered on Wednesday. Flora Mill'r, four years
old. daughter of The linitor i'm Grammar school 80.
=, at 40. 20 kiue-,t., was attacked with the disease
carly in the morning and was removed - the hospital
In the Afternoon. rs soon ao the Health Board received
Information Of the case. Tho school building Wa di--
| infected and about l 900 children were at school there
Yesterday.