The evening world., 1891-05-13
MUELLER FOLLOWS HIS Wife.
The Second Victim OF Trichinosis
Within Three Days.
Cheap East-Side Meat Markets to
be Thoroughly Inspected.

Dread triohinosis claimed its second victim
within three days, at 81. Franciss Hospital, 0O9
East Fifth street, early this morning, when
Karl Mueller, OF $50 East sixteenth street, died
there In great agony.
HIS wife, johanna, died in the same institu-
ton Monday last from bronchial pneumonia,
superinduced by trichinosis, as the autopsy
performed by DR.. Siebert- the visiting physi-
clan OF the hospital, showed.
A microscopic examination proved the pres
ence OF a countless number of trichin@ In her
system. The muscular tissue of the arms and
thighs was eaten away by the parasites, and
the heart and otner portions OF the body
swarmed with trionine-big, live specimens OF
the deadly auimslcule.
1t was at nrst thought that Mueller and MS
wife were sick with the grip. but DIR. siebert's
clever diagnosis soon convinced him that he
had two far moe serious cases to handle.
He treated the Muellers for trichlnosis, and
when Mrs Mueller died, the autopsy proved the
correctness OF mis- Judgment.
DR.. SieDert reported the matter at once to
the Board OF Heath, aud sent to DR.. Cyrus
lson, Chief OF the Bureau Of Contagious
Diseases, u cross section Of Mrs. Mueler's
heart, swaTmInR with thousands OF the deadly
aniInalcuia. They are of a pale yellowisn
color, pointed ike O needle, at bntn ends.
''Trichlnosis Is fortunately rare disease,
said DR.. Els IN ms morning, ''and the cases
IN question are tue first we nave had In New
York IN three or four years. I have ordered
h. mist Marlin and CHARLES Roberts oil the
Health Board TO make thorough investiRa-
too ot the case.
"i understand that the meat which the
Niue lIers are was bought In Union Meat Mar
ket, corner OF sixteenth street and Avenue b.
1t was low grade OF beef, cnopped hne.
mixed with pork In order TO give II piquant
Favor.
"The meat may not have been diseased and
yet be as unhealthy a. II II had been. Tue beet
Is called COW beef. 1t has a RoOd deal Of mus
cular titsue, which alb. orbs water, and being
mixed with water l. quite aeavy in weight. ln
tris wav the consumer really pays as much for
the 'ulteraied article as lie would ior nrst-
class beef.
"Fat or nrsi-class beef don't absorb water.
and tae cheap Butchers mt keep 1t for sale.
i am Informed that the Muelers were In he
habi, Of eating cir beef ana porE raw. That
accounts for their scSpess "
" But don't you think, doctor. that II the
m at sold to the Muellers was infected with
trichinae, the children OF the Muelrrs and
others who partook OF 1t woull he taken sick
with the dread disease too?" asked the re-
1--WE may hear of other cases yet" repliei
the doctor. :In the meantime every precau-
tion will be taken TO prevent the sale OF more
injected met. will we ,nr meat solu at ie
Union Meat Mark I lhOrou hlv insp CITE , and
| will sugQesi to the Meat Inspector TO nave n
| s,miIar Inspection made OF other east side
IHe Mtdt lptprCt'T IL tnt
proper otficial to make such insptc tctions." "
Mr.. and Mrs. Mueller were taken rather sick
April II after toey had eaten combination of
raw beef pork and onlonA They were poor,
and after being under the care OF the neigh
bors for week they were sent to St Francis
Hospital
Their children, aged six and one years, were
taken care OF by a kind neiQhbor, but when
their father and mother grew worse and the
doctors said there was no chance OF their re-
covery the poor little ones were uined over
to the ca VI the Childrens Aid Society.
Mueller was tailor aud earned Just enough
| TO support his family.
Mrs. Mueller frequently apoSe OF the cheap
meat she could buy, and the famiys meals
| consisted prlncipally or raw heel, pork aud
onions, from the deadly buI cher shop,
Mueller. like his wife. died suffering ter
riblJ. borh mentally and Physically, for they
both knew that their bodies were alive with
anima cule, hich meant certain death.
Mueller said that The meat hts wife Uou IL ht
| Q tme from he butcher shop, corner Avenue h
and s, Xteentn street, whicn is the Union Meal
Market.
An EVENING WORLD reporter who called
tn re this morning hat a narrow escape from
beng thrown into The chopper and ing IN de
mince meat OF, when he asked whether the
proprietor remembered having sold infected
MI Al tp the Muellers.
.it's none of nobodJ's BUSINESS what W.
sell here, " said u bIoaiel indiv dual who wa.
red all over, lace, nose, hair, hands and even
his shlrt.
The Board Of Health, however, will make 1t
Its bu iness, DIR. Edison says, aud he expects a
report from mis- men to-day yet
DR.. S ebert will make an autopsy on the BODY
of Mueller this afternoon. He has had exp.-
rience IN trichinosis Gases before; two OF
them, several years q o, came from the same
neighborhood q, the Muelers.