New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-09
TWO WARDS GUARANTEED.
THE ALARM OVER TYPHUs ABATED.
PARTICULARS OF JAMES TAYLoR's DEATH AT
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.

PARTICULARS OF JAMES TAyLoR's DEATH AT
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
The body of James Taylor, who died of typhus
FEVER at Bellevue Hospital sunday, was taken from
the Morgue yesterday in Dramatically sealed me'aic
coffin add buried in Evergrcens Cemetery. Ward 20, IN
which he died. and Ward 8, in which he lay Tor iew
hours when he first arrived at the hospital have oeeh
thoroughly dsinected and every thing with WHICH MS
hody came in contact has been burned. strict
quarantine has been established in the two wards
which contain twenty-five patients. IT viii last iof
twenty-one days. the period Of incubation IN 'Tphus
cases. and during that time no patients VIII be re
y Seived or discharged.
81 some of the patients In Ward 70 are grss"s
charmed as they fear the effects Of Geng cooped up for
three with the ghost Of spotted typhus mover
ing over them Elsewhere In the hospital there Is no
sscitement and affairs drifting along In the nsua
j nit. The physicians think they have let' uhuone
nothing that will prevent spreading OF the disease.
no. DIR. Edison, Of the Board OF Fealth, maze all ih
vestigatoh Of the case yesterday and learned that
TAYLOR arrived in this city on March IS not from
Australia as at first supposed but from 1feenoch
Scotland and the inference drawn from that fact is
that he must have contracted the disease on board SNIP
In a few extremely malignant cases the dcvelophehe
is more rapid, but ordinarily twenty or t"eh's o.e
days are required for typhus fever TO manifest tse
1t is not strange, when this fact Is Known 'nae .'o
physicians were unable to diagnose correctly inc
disease from which Taylor SUFFERING Dr. Eason
himself admits that the physician of the Health De
partment Dr. Dillingham;, pronounced the maiauy
measles as late as last Thursday. Dr. schneider, Oh
the hospital staff he says, thought 1t the grip MOI
tn the man was dead 1t suspected that he was
victim of typhus
II is not the first time that an incorrect diagnosis
has been made in such case. DR.. Edison recalled
one of recent date in which what was supposed 10 DC
typhus fever turned out 10 be typhoid NO uouo'
many errors of a similar nature committed by the
younc physicians in charge of the city hospitals. Inc
science of medicine inexaet and much guessing ac-
companies it, ~
some little time ago an ambulance delivered az
Gouverneur Hospital man In feeble condluoh' lho
receiving physician decided after the usual nasty eA
animation, that he was consumptVe, anu lor'n"iu
ordered his transfer to Bellevue. Here the py
g., charge concluded that yphus fever the trouble
and not relishing such a Immediately transferred
the man to the Charity Hospital There the physicians
,er all nj sen and the Board OF Health being appealed
TO- one Of It's representatives was sent to diagnosis
the case When he arrived the man was uead' All
antopsy revealed the startling fact that the poor Ieow
had had neither consumption nor typhus feVer puV hao
died OF cerebro-sp ipal meningitis. . 49,, l.. .,o
DO you look for spreading OF ln9 ulshso III e
hospital owing TO Taylors dea'h'" Di' NN''" ""'
IL do not was the reply "TayloT's BED was was
always outward If it had been inward there might
be more cause for alarm Besides. In Taylors case
the fever had advanced to the stage where ahoter
ygonld be likely to contract ii from him."
pr Edison sent Dr. Benedict to the boardmg.h mouse
at No 327 West Fiftietst 10 MAKE cuI ta a JH
animation of the inmates This VIII De tepes1oa T
no restrictions will be placed the occupants They
may go and come as they please I'LL 'io n'S'
The quarantine the morgue was removed tuVT
she body Of Taylor was taken away