New-York tribune., 1891-02-21
IN DANGER FROM SMALLPOX.
INFECTED ARABS VISIT MANY HOUSES.
ONE RIDES ON A CROWDED ELEVATED TRAIN
WHEN HE HAS THE DISEASE-THE
HEALTH BOARD AT WORK.

HEALTH BOARD AT WORK.
Najeen Malofr and ACf Barck, Arab pedlers
who have travelled about the city, selling
alleged Oriental curicsities for year and have
slept in odging-houses in Westinghouse. were
sent to North Brother Island yesterday, suffering
from smallpox Barck went to the Reception
Hospital in East Sixteenth-st. on Thursday after
noon, alone, having been directed there by some
body at present unknown to the sanitary officials.
lie rode from the lower part Of the city to Four
teenth-st. on a Second-ave elevated train, and he
aiterward said that the car in which he found
standing room was crowded. The other persons
IN that oar undoubtedly were exposed to the dis
ease, and some OF them are pretty sure to eaten
IL, II they had not been protected by vaccination.
worse still, they may have carried the germs OF
the disease in their clothing to families in East
Side dwellings Barick was covered with the
smallpox eruption when he reached the hospital,
ana the house physician there Immediately recog-
nlzed the character Of the disease The Arab
was placed in separate room, and Dr. cyrus
Edison, Chief Inspector Of Contagious Diseases.
was informed Of the case. Learning that BarlclS
had been satying lately in the lodging house
No. II Westinghouse Dr. Edison sent the Dis
injecting Corps to remove all bedding and cloth
ing which the man had been in contact with
Yesterday morning DR.. Edison received tee
gram signed by II. Williams, saying that an Arab
was sick at the lodging house. No. 81 Washing
t0n-st NaOl was found at that place. and he
was removed TO the Reception Hospital in the
smallpox wagon. Baricll and Malof knew each
other, but had not been in each others company
much Of late, they said They both had been
ABOUT the city selling their wares on Tuesday
and Wednesday, after they had begun TO suffer
from the disease and had entered many houses
each day. There is no telling how many persons
IN the city have been exposed to smallpox in
those two days. The sanitary officials were not
able 10 ascertain how the TWO men contracted
The disease. DR.. Edison said that the cases were
tie only ones known to have originated in the
city IN TWO years.
Several vaccinators and policemen of the sSani-
ta7y Squad were sent 10 Washln-ton-st with the
DAlnl'ctng Corps yesterday. and seventy inmates
of tie two lodcing-houScs were vaccinatcd. All
bedding and clothing known TO have been infected
were removed to the disnfcctng station in East
SiAtecnth-st. Last evening DR.. Edison sent the
vaccinators and policemen 10 visit other lodging
houses in WaShngt gton-St. with orders TO vaccinatc
the olgcrs
AZ the house. NO. Il. which is kept by an Arab
where recently Birick had lived. all the people in
the house were vacclnatcd. and this was also true
Of No. -. No. - l. clearinghouse kept 10y
Mrs. Williams an lrshwOman, and as all OF the
household had been vacciuatcd in Ireland, they
with true Celtic pride refused - be Nacclnatcd In
this country. However. when the woman was
told that smallpox had brokcn out in two houscS
nearby. She and her household expressed their
willingness 10 bc vaccinatcd to-day. No. - IS
another Arab tenement house. and mere also most
of the dodgers were vaccinaied c0mcly irish
woman living az no. 80 with family Oi little
ones hopes that the physicians will visit her to-
day. No 9I from which house Nalecn Malou
was removed yesterday. is kept by Joseph hel-
ler lie said that Malon had lodged with
him since last fall, renting n rOoT in which the
Arab and his daughter lived. Maloh bad bren
aing for week and had been attended 1v Dr:
Hamilton Williams. who II was declared. had SAID
the man was suffering from chickenpoN, and that
there was no danger Of infection. Since sunday,
however Keller and his wife had noticed that
the daughter did not sleep in the room wlth her
father. They got suspicious and on Thursday re-
ported the case to the Board Of Health. with the
result that the man was at one" removed, every
thing in his room carried away. the house fum-
gated and every one I'm tie household vacclnated
~ n number Of other Arab t'nement-honsrS IL
the neghborhood who're 10 visits were mad" last
night tie Arabs expected that there was 10 be
house-to-hous, visit to-day, and seemed 10 think
the matter n huge loke.
At tie Liberty ST police station there is an
entry in which Hamilton Williams reported that
there was case Of chickcnpoN at No. 81 Wash
ington-St.