New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-14
THE THIRD CASE OF TYPHUS.
JOHN JUDGE, A FEVER PATIENT. FoUND
IN THE STREETS.

TEMPORARY QUARANTINE IN THE NEwYoRR
HospITAL-GRP AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
HELP TO SWELL THE DEATH RATE.
Word II in the New-York Hospital was IN .
state of quarantine yesterday because a man was
believed to have died there from typhus fever
on Sunday. Within the short period OF eight
DAYS the dreaded disease has made trouble at three
of the hospitals in this city. On Sunday. April 5.
James Taylor died in Bellevpe Hospital from the
disease. Two days later Antonio Mlrtnelli was
found sick with the fever in the Roosevelt Hos
pitul. and was removed TO North Brother Island.
About a u. m on Saturday Policeman Sullivan
found q man sick on the sidewalk in front OF NO.
1853 Greenwich-st The man could not talk, Duo
pinned to his coat was note signed Dy Dr'
Decker, of Woodbridge, n. j.. stating tnat ,ne
man was John Judge. Hungarian laborer' VINO
had been employed in the caypits at Woodbridge;
that he was suffering from the grip, and that ne
needed treatment in hospital. Sullivan took
Judge to the Church-st. police station. whence
an ambulance carried him to the Chambers Streeo
HOSPITAL After remaining there few hours
Judce was transferred to the New-iork Hospital,
and was placed in Ward II. He died on Sunday
afternoon.
Yesterday morning DIR. Frank Ferguson, OF the
hospital staff, performed an autopsy, ana ai'er
ward informed DR.. Cyrus Edison. of the Heaitn
Department that there were indications oil yphus
fever 1t sometimes happens that an autopsy does
rot reveal Che true cause Of death, and DIR. Fer
ruson was not sure that Judge had died from tie
fever but indications" were sufficient TO cause
tho sanitary officials to establish a temporary
quarantine in Ward H. TO destroy every parnce
NJ bedding and clothing which had been In con-
tact with Judges body and TO cisinfect the ward
thoroughly Dr. Edison said he doubted II judge
had died from the fever. but no precautions woulu
no omitted at the hospital TO prevent further
trouble there He heard that Judge had been IN
Woodbridge about two months. In that place there
has been an alleged serious epidemic OF the grip
To make sure that epidemic OF yphus teVer
had not broken out in Woodbridge. Dr. tuson
sent an inspector to that place to make an hVeso-
oaticr The inspector will return and make
report to-day.
There is a suspected case Of typhus fever In
Oyster Bay. Il. Dr. G.. w. Fuller, of that place,
Yesterday wrote to Dr. Edison describing the
svmptoms of the patient who recently came 10 thls
country On the steamship Circassia from Glasgow
Scotland. James Taylor, who died In beheVua
Hospital. came TO this city on the same vessel
which is now quarantned at Glasgow with 'nieo
Of her officers sick with the fever
The people of Woodbridge were much excited
cose DIR. DAYTON Decker, who gave the man
letter recommending his admission TO Ne"-AoiA
bosnital. when seen by Tribune reporter. said'
"I saw Judge for the first and only time Oh III
dav last and thought he was suffering from pneu'
moria and influenza. On Saturday one OF his
comrades came and asked me for letter recon-
roandirg Judee's admission to a New-York hos
nitoI AS we have no adequate accommodation
n opr noorhouse here, l gave the letter. re-
ceved a letter to-day from DIR. Cyrus Ehson s.a'-
ing that the man had apparently died irom yphu.
fever and reported the same to the Health Doara
here who have quarantined the house In wnich
the Hungarian lived with eight more OF his coun-
trvrnen Two more of them have been III WIN
nneumonia, one of whom l saw this morning u0
rvorI, IN the clay pits The other was In the drug
store this morning getting some medicine. lhrec
80 tho Hungarian colony have died during 'ho
last week, but none of them from typnus 80.
Jobn Judge has been here SIX months' ouO '"..e
oro now arrivals almost every day among INC
NON With regard TO there being an eplueniio "
tynbus fever in the village, l can distinctly s'""'
there is nothing of the sort N.Y.,
A visit 70 the Hungarian quarter IN "oou
br;doe showed that the men were cro"ueu IN
small wooden sheds, filth was predotlii"n'' "-
tho Use of water on the clothes ana perS'nS -
the laboreps was conspicuous Oy iVs o'' :.
nIace looked like hot-hOuse for forcing aIhios'
anv contagious disease. The death-rate IN "oou-
bridge for the last week has been heavy .heie
having been funeral every day. No death' now
ever. was ascribed as typhus fever Orlp' WIN
complications. is accountable for four OF inc
deaths. ,,
THE RAvAGEs OF THE GRIP.
Tho biqh deatb-rate in the city this week SHOWS
that the epidemic of the grip has not begun !"
sbate On Sunday 1s7 deaths were reported ~
the Bureau of Vital Statistics, and among ohehi
were twenty-five caused by grip in complication
with other complaints The record for yeS'erday
was 154 Deaths twenty of which were from srip
complications comparison OF the deatn recorus
Of the last two weeks with the records OF the TWO
Corresponding weeks in 1890 shows that Ile
endemic is PARTICULARLY dangerous TO persons WIN
sufIer from pulmonary troubles
April ), April II, April q, APRIL H.
l590. 1890 iSJI; A195it;, 5t,
Total deaths '..'-'''''' ,,09 iii 124 20
Pneumonia -.'.-''''-'-' 40 1i3 l3I 1lS
Consumption '---''''-'' "a ii 90 53
IrOnchluS al
Grin complications. "
In the week ending April 5, 1890, the epidemic
of tine erip, which caused many deaths III January
md February of that year, disappeared III may