Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-17
SPREAD OF THE TTPHUs.

| Great Excitement in . Massachu
 setts Town - Discovery of Con
 cealed Cases in Pennsylvania . Story of tho Disease on the Mas
 silia-Two More Victims fin New | York.
 l OAKDALB, Mass, Feb. 16.-There i.
 great excitement in town over five genuine
 cases of typhus fever. The victims are 6 Jew mother and four children, who were
 sent by the Hebrew Charity association to
 work in the mill of Frederick Whitney,
 who has been employing several refugee
 families in his factory. This family came
 to this village about ten days ago. They
 wero immediately taken sick and the
 disease was soon pronounced typhus. The
 board of health hired an unoccupied
 house on the hill overlooking the village
 and the sick ones were removed there and
 a nurse from Mount Sinai hospital pro-
 vided for them. Every comfort possible
 has been provided for them, but the want and destitution to which they had been subjected previous to coming to this country, the long voyage over and the terrible disease which has fastened upon them will initiate very much against them. Dr. Earle is their attendant, visit ing them twice a day and watching the disease with much interest. The father is in very feeble condition and indications are that the fever is working in his sys- tenn. Reports are that another child was taken down yesterday, making six fully developed cases.
 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16-The board of F. ', s,.ex L | the city for the thirty-fve Italian passen- gers of the typhus-infected steamer Mas silia, who are said to have come here from New York have succeeded in locating two of them, Maria Lerago and her daughter They are in little frame building, the first floor of which is used as 8 macaroni shop, at No. 717 Alaska street. They claimed, through a boy interpreter, that the only persons who suffered from typhus on the steamer were the Russian contingent. They also claimed that they had brought no baggage with them and stubbornly maintained that they did not know any other Italians from the Massilia who had come to this city.
 Dr. Hunter examined the immigrants. The woman had been sick, but Dr. Hunter said that she had no symptoms of typhus The daughter was healthy-looking girl about fourteen years of age. She said she had not been sick.
 NEW CASTLE, Ps., Feb. 16.-Nine of the passengers of the typhus-fevsr-infected steamer Massilia have been located in Law renee county, and great alarm is felt lest the infection should spread. Two of the are known to be very sick, but so sedulously are they concealed by their countrymen that it is next to impossible to learn their condition or their exact disease. The health officers have been notified and are securing the country for the patients One of the company, Mary Rosana, said last night through an interpreter:
 ''There were on board 200 Russian Jews, 400 Italians, and 200 Swedes, Hun garians and Germans They were only out 8 few days when Russian or Pole male passenger was taken down with a queer disease. The immigrants were told that it was some harmless malady and all the passengers in our quarter passed the sick bed many times day. About the time the spots broke out the Russian was re- moved to another part of the ship, but more were taken down. We still did not think it dangerous until the people were also taken away and isolated. One after another of the were seized with the affection until there must have been fifty cases It was only after the disease became epidemic that we were told to stay away from the sick people. do not know whether any of the patients died but some of those who | shipped with us wers lost sight of. Seven | ,een Italians and Russians went to Pitts | burg, and many got of the train along the | road between New York and Pittsburg."
 PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 16 A case of | ;yphus fever was discovered to-day in an | italian boarding house at No. 1135 Penn | ivenue. The sick man admits that he was l ,ne of IA emigrsnts that recently arrived | in Pittsburg, who were passengers on the | steamer Msssilis. He refuses to disclose l he whereabout of his companions.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Late this after noon two new cases of typhus fever were found among the twenty-three immigrants detained at the landing bureau on Ellis island
 LATER-Another case of typhus fever was discovered here tonight. This swells the list to eighty-nine.
 BOSTON, Feb. 16.-Three Italians who who came to Boston from the typhus in- fected steamer Massilia and four othes that came with them were located this af- ternoon in the heart of the Italian quar- ter at the North End. Three more are in towns. The all appear healthy and in none of them have any symptoms If the dreaded fayar beap davaIorad