New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-12
SCORES OF TYPHUS VICTIMS
THE FEVER RIFE AMONG RUSSIAN HEBREWS
MANY LIVES IN LODGING HOUSES IN DANGER
THE HEALTH BOARD STARTLED.

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| and deadly. il was stamped out with oreat
trouble after it had kilicI several inmates Of n
! clearinghouse in Marion-St. about ten wears AGO
and since then it has not caused much trouble in
the city, because the Health Department has been
prompt III isolating every and in disinfecting
the houses from which patients were removed
Dr. Leo Damn, of No. - Rivington-st. sent
| word TO Or. Cyrus Edison about noon Yesterday
that several Hebrews were suffering from a sus-
picious fever in the clearinghouse No. AZ East
| Twclfth-st., which is under the control of the
United Hebrew Charities. Dr. Edison went 10 the
iodginS-houSe ana found fifteen persons sick from
| typhus fever there. Between sixty and seventy
other Russian Hebrews were in tie lodging house.
| and Dr. Edison learned that they all had come 10
the city on the steamship Massa, which arrived
| from MarSeilles on January 90 Wore still he
! learned that about 200 Russian Hebrews were
stceragc passengers on the vessel, that most
OF Them had been sent to lodginc-houses in the
crowded Hebrew quart rs east of the Bowcy
| The Massla left MarSeics OH January ,, and
touched at Naples and Gibraltar on January and
| II. KS the period of incubation for typhus fever
is about eighteen days, DR.. Edison was convinced
that The Hebrews had caught the disease on the
steamer.
one OF the patients in tho odgino-house in
Iwelfth-st' had hccn sick nearly week. and the
| o'I'in Hdu bccll attacked with Tie lever within
| foltyeight hours. All had high temperature and
racking hcadachc. Their heads had been swathcd
| In bandages, and it easy TO pick out the
sufferers. DR.. Edison summoned his assistants and
the amhulanccs of the department. and began the
work Of removing the patients from the lodging
| house. The names and ages of the patients were
written down as follows
Abraham Decker, twenty years old David
| Decker, sixteen. Samuel Decker. eleven Joseph
Abramowitz, thrty-cight: Malo,h Abramowi'z
ten; Chuna AbramowitI, twelve Eva Colds hmidt.
eight: Ohage GOdschmdt, SIX: Shelter Mcizcl
eleven; EnOch Greencr, twenty; Reuben Grccner
| twenty-five; Leo Greencr eighteen: Rcnian7fn
/ Grccner, twenty-four; Solomon Grccner, twelve:
| Moses Grccncr, six.
Ambulanccs carried the patients TO the Reccp-
ton Hospital in East SiXtccnth-st whence they
were transferred by steamboat 10 North Brother
Island. The members of the Decker, Abramowitz
and Goldschmdt children and the parents Vt the
Greeners were permitted to 90 to the island 10
act as nurses, although they exhibited no symp-
toms of fever. The baggage and bedding in the
lodging house in Twclfthst. were removed to the
/ disinfecting station in Sixtcenth-st. and baked
in the dry ovens until they had been freed from
germs of typhus fever. Before they were taken
| back the lodging house was dsinfected carefully
from top TO bottom. DR.. Edison then established
a quarantine, giving orders that inmates of the
house should not be permitted TO leave it with
out the permission of sanitary inspector.
| The next step to find and inspect the lodg-
| ing-houses in which the other Russian Hebrews
| r, the steamship Msssiiia itving General
| Emmons Clark secretary of the Health Board
| addressed note to Henry Rice president OF the
| United Hebrew Charities, requesting that informa-
, ton about the distribution OF the Hebrews I've
sent TO the Bureau of Contagious Diseases and
| that inmates Of lodginGhouscs under the con-
trol of the United Hebrew Charities be prevented
from leaving the houses until inspectors from
| the bureau had visited them. In the afternoon
| Dr. Edison learned that Hebrews from the Mas
siIia had been sent to lodeng-houscs at Nos.
EsseX-st, 1il Madison-st., 81 and 4j Monroc-st.,
46 Dclanccy-st, and 81 Norfolk-st. Before ..
~. his assistants had found twcnty-onc ryphus
| three more III the house No - Monroc-st. No
person was found sick from the fever at No. 1ll
Tie ncAt big batch Of refugees was unearthed
in the lodging house No. ) Eh,eX-St. From this
| place were taken Reb .cca SunkOwy, thirty-two:
| Natal Max. seventeen; Hannah Man. fOrty-One
Celia lloch. twcnty-thr3e; Shobc Hess. twenty
four; Clara Hoffman, fifteen; Lcba Holman,
twelve; Simon Hoffman. eight; Naka Hoffman,
| twenty-eigm; Israel Hoffman ffty; Clara liof-
man. nine SIENNA Gulnlcka. four; Joshua Druth,
| eighteen: lsra11 Druth. fifteen; AdOlph Drlth.
seycnteen; y.l SIMON & schultz. t. nineteen KeGbeil
Mcnncr. ten; Clara Mcnncr seven (mother,
father and children to 90.
At No. 50 Monroe-st. SIX CASES were discovered
| and III. following people were taken away Isaac
SoHzer. forty: Bas Soulzer. sixteen: Abraham
Soulzer, fourteen; Moses Soulzcr twelve; Rube
SoulZcr. six; Bertha SOulzer three tmothcr and
two children TO 90.
Then several more cases were discovered at diff
f-rent houses in the ncigllborhood. The cases at
five; Pel Wenstein. seven. and Lubctzkc VEIN
stein. ten. At No. As Deanceyst Jenny Lebon.
six Rachel I.ebof. twelve. and Mary Persean. eight.
At No. So Norolk-st.. David COppelman. twenty.
two at No 1GG Dvision-st.. Moses Klcnlan, thirty,
eight; Paulina eleven; IIilda, four mother and
two children to goJ Rachel Furman, fifty
Slava Furman, fourteen; Ilawa Furman, twelve;
| Kufka, eight tmOthcr and one child to go-
In all ffty-seven refugees were gathered III
during the day. Each infected house was put
under rigid quarantine and thoroughly dislh-
From No. 81 Monroc-st yesterday Sarah IIaro-
WITT thirty-two years old. and Goldman Rntz:
thirty years old. were taken 10 the Long Island
College Hospital Asslstant Sanitary Inspector
Moore, of Brooklyn said last evening that two
foyer. but he had found that they had mild
typc Of typhoid fever and were in no danger.
Dr. Edison admitted that there was danger Of an
lenidemc of the fcVar on account of the exposure
10 contagion in crowded district where the
houses are occupied mainly by Russian and Polish
Hebrews He said: "Typhus fever is the most
lcortarious disease with which we have to deal in
This city 1t is marked in its early stage ny cN-
ccedingly high temperature and violent hcadachr
Tie skin takes on dlsky hue ana neconlcp
covered in spots with a red eruption. ms nae
roused the nam, spotted fever to be applied to
The discaec 1t is also called ships fever. be-
cause il is sometimes occasloned by 'an AR III
,,o.scIs The Hebrews who now suffering from
thc disease must have caught it on the steamship
an tIn ocpan because the period OF incubation has
~nt hocn passcd Stree they landed. ! talked
lin sCuo of them and they told me they had
Iong and tempestuous voyage being shut up IN
Tc croyd.d stccraGc for eighteen DAYS. IEry
siso had endured much SUFFERING fatigue ana
,;,,finn before they went on board the steamship
Phcy were driven from their homes in KuSsId
ard were compelled TO walk many mil's IN Gnla
1unr,I,nr without sufficient food and clothlne
T,Lc,. r,.rc prohibited from entering Turkey ana
orc ,nrc comnellcd to take much LONGER journey 10
tie place where they Gould Scf & sail iDT nn"n ali
~ VI, W. bo have not been attacked with the fever
o. ntu 'bc danger period has passed By the care
fnI disinf ction Of their present hones ,,nr an We