Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-14
LEPERS IN NEW YORK.
Two Cinnamon Who Are Thought to
Be Afflicted With Leprosy
TAKEN TO A CHARITY HOSPITAL.
Doctors in Doubt as to the True Nature Of
Their Disease.
CHINAMEN ASSERT THAT 1T Is LEPROSY

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Ong Moy Toy, a
Chinese gambler who has been living at
No "a Mott street, and Tsang Ding, who
has two Chinese groceries, were sent to the
Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island on
Monday afternoon by order of DIR. Cyrus
Edison, of the Board of Health. Both men
were suffering from disease that resembled
leprosy. They were afflicted with ulcers,
but the physicians of the Board of Health
who saw the men were not prepared to say
they were lepers, so they were sent to the
Charity Hospital, where they could receive
good treatment and be carefully watched.
To-day the physicians of the Charity Hos
pital notified Dr. Edison that both men were
undoubtedly lepers ....
The Health Board and the Commissioners
of Charities and Correction are now in a
quandary as to what disposition shall be
made of these lepers. Less than a month
ago Chin Hop Sing, laundryman, was
found to be ieper, and was sent up to the
Charity Hospital Cinnamon in Mott street
say there are other cases of leprosy among
their countrymen here, and, although DR..
Edison says there is comparatively little
danger Of the disease spreading, he thinks
that there should be separate hospital for
such cases. Commissioner Sheehy, of the
Board of Charities and Correction, says the
hospital on Blackwell's Island is not the
proper place for patients suffering with con-
tagious diseases.
TSANG DING RETURNS HOME.
To-day Tsang Ding left the hospital and
returned to Mott street and his grocery
business. The physicians at the hospital
had no authority to detain him, and to-mor-
row DIR. Edison is going to isolate him in
some other place. Tsang Ding is about IS
years old. For three years he has been
suffering from disease that at least is akin
to leprosy in symptoms. He is looked upon
by his countrymen as a man of considerable
influence and money. He says that he is
not afflicted with leprosy, but with taint
in the blood
DR.. Edison, on the report of Inspectors
Doty and Blauvelt, persuaded him to go to
the Charity Hospital. His cousin, who has
been living with him, went to the hospital
to-day, accompanied by lawyer, and de-
manded his release. Tsang Ding said he
wanted to go home and the physicians were
powerless to detain him. The leper's room
is on the top floor of tenement, and there
are only two or three other Cinnamon who
with children last nigbt and tbev oil new
where the leper lived.
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Some of the women protested against his
being allowed to remain in the house
Tsang Ding's cousin said to the reporter
that Tsane had been in this country for
nearly 90 wears. and that the ulcers with
which he was afflicted made their apnear-
ance only three wears ago. When Chin Hon
Sings case was discovered DR. Edison said
that although there were a nnmber- of ooaas
of lenrosv in New Work ali The ti,na tbero
wos po record of onv c.sa ubere tbe d;aaaso
bad hesn oontroc,nd bara Te,nn, nv urs0Iso b
hos an anemy in Mott street wbo bos 49,
him mucb tronbIe and II ,ros tbis .na1,,,
who accuses him Of being a Iener IF tbe
noliee and the Roard of Hath will Ier him
alone he will cure himself He has enounh
money to engage his own physicians and he
does not want any assistance
Onp Nov Toy. the other Ieper who was
sent to the Charity Hospital. i still there
He is bio Chinaman, 10 wears old and he
has made himself feared in Mott street he
canse of his readiness to fobt For con-.
t;me be has left his room, oni, ~ n;oht
His foce is nuffad his eves arc na..rI,,
oinsod ond bic aarS and noss Iooi1 &c ;s thag
,nore ,,lcerataJ He hos been normi+.ad IL ~
roinoJa fraai,, with +be Cb;nsso ,ar,bIars w
nithonnh - Ios baa, rarortad fo, $50 80,
tbat he 1vas q Iener ''''o ''-io