New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-18
SUPPORTING DIR. PERCIY1L.
TESTIMONY ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF TYpHus
PATIENTS on NORTH BROTHER ISLAND

TESTIMONY ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF TYPHUs
PATIENTS on NORTH BROTHER ISLAND.
The Health Board yesterday listened to the testi.
mony Of a number Of witnesses who Ind been sum-
lnoued by DR.. F. r. Percival the resident physician
on North Brother Island. to confute "The Worlds
charge that he had neglected his duties In the vphus
fever wards They appeared to be persons whose
statements could lie believed In opposition to the
stories told ty nurses who had deserted their posts
Or by Russian Hebrews who had passed through the
aclrum OF the fever the island. DR.. Brown. an
assistant to DR.. Pdden in the College OF Physicians
and surgeons testified that he on the island ana
went through the typhus wards with DR.. Percival IN
order to study the disease DR.. Percival talked with
lin IN the presence OF patients speaking Of the changes
In their symptoms in u way that showed previous
doily int crcourse with them. Henry Miller, who
recently recovered from typhus fever in Ward No.
on the island said he well treated there ana So"
DR. Perdval In The waId every day. Similar testimony
wns oven by Hannah ROsenblatt. who had been SICK
in ward No 8. She could not speak Englhal, ana
Coroner Levy, who preset OF the inquiry ac'e"
as Interpreter When asked II she knew DR.. Per'Vai'
she shot grateful glance toward him and sa ii
Cernon. 4" He is the man who cured me-
Richard O'Toole an orderly In ward No D. anu
adelaide Merres aad Mary OCornor. trained h'SeN
I'm other fever wards, contTadictcd he iepo'.,
The World that Dr.. Percival did not ei,or W.
wards They testified that he had been IN I'e 80.
md at the bedSdcS OF uio sim ,rd
aav Edward Rhodda. n nurse in the measles
testified regarding tie talk and conduct OF i'Affe
yohen the nurses who deserted their posts III ,
,ro nj ard wer believed to have insueaten 'no
,,.on Dr pcrcival on one occasion. Rhoooa SAN M
rel, declared that nurse who couio ho' se' - h1
.leon in his tour OF duty was no goou 49, e,o,
so,a that the Russian Hebrew refugees VINO "o'O 80
with the fever had no business In tIhs o'"'"'
ought 10 have been drowned before theA ~ 49,
Rhodda said lie testified that he nad > s"
knock down two of the refugees on the Sia"" l.,
A number of affdavts by patients on :Ae is'"N'
sunnort Of DR. Percval, submtco 'D ~
sIgned by Policeman Whalen. Of the sani'"!' 49,
who Is recovering from the fever. Ihe h'e'"s' "
was closed but the Health Boards decision MAY H' -
reached for week r.os In
Mary Bergman and Elizabeth Fitzp =" - h'uS.' -
the typhus wards on the island were Al Hco VIZ" ~
fever Yesterday. No death occurred slong ,S ' civ
ucnts, anu ~ 60 vnung workusn Us found III
!laItIn, - - Mt. home NJ M $50 ,narl-et. lie
Win sHlu!P ~ n-a t.Nrr L sisy had suffered
had causntt, Ino ou,tocT NJ ya,ioIOd had visited
from d ,liu S'.r ",,vox IN N,,Ih.r Bergen was
an immigrant woman named 20 Hainey, SIGN
MIN -vAro' ,bo - bor s,eeI. 20 Sscngcrs Of the
NcuncS"'ti,. ~ +ba steamer was ected AT Omar
seiNd' .oo,, her Mace fin line a. the other immi-
Grants and escaped notice When EanIeu a. i-an>
Ishl ,, m ond took her IN the no. ita where IL was
to5 tot ebe had scarlet fey r. yesterday she was
sent to the Willard Parker Hot pita' -,
bridgeport Conn. March ! tSpecaD.-leaitn
Officer F1zgbbon, to-day discovered I W." qS IN
;be thckly- populated Italian district OF hls vIE S
ferIng from typhs lie Immediately caused Ihe iso'a-
don Of the patients