The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-26

SAM Sings SICKNESS.
His Physician Says It Is
Erysipe1as and Not
Leprosy.
sALTONSTALL IS RETIcENT.
VISIT 10 the chinamanI Laundry
at Eearney Hoi BE
Looks.
SALT0NSTALL is RETICENT.


Jumping at conclusions is hardly safe.
even with Chinaman, so at
least is seems in the case of the
ieprosair Celestial at Kearney. Some
days ago report reached
The County Board OF Health that .one
Sam Sing. Chinese Iaundryman, was
afflicted with the deyouring disease
peculiar TO his race. The astutel
medical practitioner. who hunts up
bad smells and violations Of
health ordinances, Dr. Saltonstall, was or
dered to the scene of the disorder to in
yestigate, and the New York
papers said he pronounced the
afflicted Monaghan to be leper.
/ found Dr. SaItonstall at his home. No.
40l Bloomfield street. Hoboken. last even
ing He seeme loath 80 expose his
ignorance upon the ~ 2 of leprosy.
sALToNsTALL WONT TALE
doctor" / said. ..the physician who
is treating our afflicted friend, the
Chinese ieper Of Kearney. says that his
patient is not afflicted with
leprosy but is suffering from
eryslpeias THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
toms Rpon which you based your eonclu-
sion that this was case of ieprosy.v
The Doctor leaned back IN his chair and
delivered himself as foflows:-
II was ordered by the Board Of Health
to go to Harrison and ind If leper was
man whom the people supposed
20 be a leDer. Mind you, / say Che people
supposed be was leper made report
to DIR. Converse, my superior officer. /
have nothing more TO say
"But, DOCTOR" / ventured, what were
fhe sym rtf fafla van foi1n6e,,
II will not say" he replied, II have
said all | will say upon the subject"
Then you did not make any exanina-
tionS' persisted.
"Oh, yes.I did. made an examination"
he answered.
WHAT the symptoms were which he
found, or whether he had declared that
the man was leper he would not say.
He refused TO answer any further ques-
tons, saying that he had said all he
would.
SAM sIEG's DOCTOR.
Dr.. Alters, the Harrison physician who
was said 10 be In attendance upon Sam
Sing. was the next person I saw.
why | hays5st seen this Chinaman for
| two years. ne skzss. then was called in
to attend him found him suffering
from erysipelas Of the face and prescribed
remedies which in two weeks mace his
face as smooth as yours or mine.
1t was at this time the runner of leprosy
was started. This way l account for IL Is,
that there were several Cinnamon
when Sings face broke out,
why, his fellow countrymen
| probably thought to injure his business
by starting such a rumor. II it was
genuine case OF lspTos5, why, do not
believe there are six physicians IN this
State who could diagnose it correctly. II
is very unpleasant 10 me to be brought
into the case.
II was away with my regiment and
when ! returned I found this leprosy ex-
element and my name mixed up
with IT,: | ought to be set RICH !
to be concerned in it. Now. l have not
seen the Chinaman, but | venture to say
he has not leprosy. He is very probably
suffering from erysipelas."
Before l left him the doctor very kindly
showed me soma photographs OF men
suffering with leprosy, and with these
pictures still on my minds eye / paid a
visit 10 the sick man. / found him alone
in his laundry on John street. John
street is dark unlighted tnoroughfare.
SAM SINGS DEN.
| Two dimly burning oil lamps, swung
| from brackets against the wall. threw an
entertained light upon the bare walled,
bare focred laundry. Outside a weather
/ beaten sign creakingly swung to and 1ro
in the evening breeze and
crowd of women, girls. boys and
/ TWO or three men stood about the stoop
1 and crowded into the doorway.
The diseased Chinaman sat within be-
/ hind small counter on which he rested
| his arms, which were bare 70
| the elbow. He looked the incarnation
of misery and despair. The people OUT
side were too afraid of the disease to guy
| him and he was silent.
| The opinion of the ueighbors was that
/ he did not have tne lepr0sy. After hesl-
tating in the doorway for some time
went in and said
| Peel sick, John2'
'NoDe,n he answered
How long have you been this wayf" /
asked, pointing to his face and hands.
ssOh, not velly long," ne replied.
HOW HE LOOKS
| The light was berry dim. and you had to
| get quite near to see the symptoms OF his
| disorder. His face was dotted with large
\ blind boils. each about the size of pea.
| On each side of his cheek was a
| peculiar four lined scar of the form of a
| pin wheel. His hands were also covered
with these boils- His arms did not have
| the discolored patches on the skin peculiar
| to leprous patients, nor was his face
marked that way. He was not enact
ated as sufferer from leprosy
| for two years would be. No
| visible portion OF his body had been
eaten away. He said he felt all right,
of work piled up behind
/ him to prove the statement
Sufferers from ieDrosy have a languid
| weary feeling which makes them shun
work.
he had large open wound over the
| eye but this had been made By club in
| the hands of tough some
time early last evening. 1t was
done because the tough could
not get his shirts without ticket. Judg-
| ing from the amount of bundles in his
store, and the testimony of his neigh
bors. Sings business has not suffered
much from the ruinors about the dread
disease.
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