The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-08
COMMONPLACE JfEROISM.
Nurse Glcnuan Dead or Typhus Fever and
~ Sanitary Policeman Stricken.

~ Sanitary Policeman Stricken.
Tho story OF Catherine Glennnn. ono OF the
many women who answered the call for vol
urtrors to go to North Brother Island to nurse
the typhus patients there went thcre and
stucl bravely TO her post and who was herself
strict en- with the disease and died last SUN
day. TWO weeks after reaching the island. is
brief simple and Commonplace" as one
man d~ Scribed Il. A commonplace story OF n
common place person. who did m net of COM
monplac>s heroism. similar. in spirit IL not in
incident. 10 hundreds that are done in this
city amorvy commonplace people. and dissim-
inr only in that II happens to he told
Catherine Glennan was widow. 80 years
old, and the city In whose service she was for
several years has no record to tell anything
about her. where she came from. or whether
she had any friends She was nurse in
Bellevue Hospital for two or three years. and
acquired considerable experience among con-
taglous cases. On Feb. q. when the number Of
typhus patients became too large for the rcgu-
lar staff OF nurses to attend to. Dr. Cyrus Ed
son issued . call for volunteers to so to North
Brother Island. There wcro very many re-
ponscs to the call. moro by fnr thai enough to
MI all requirements. Mrs. Glennnn was ono
of tho volunteers. and on Feb. L. she left
Bellevue and went to tho island. She went rs
assistant nurse. and was appointed at n salary
OF $14 a month On Friday last she was taken
down with typhus. and on Sunday she died.
Late yesterday n ftcrnoon Mrs. Edward Dwyer
Of 354 East Eighty-seventh street called ut tho
Health Department.. said shc was "a sister-in-
have the body 10 bury it,. She saw DR.. Edison.
who. she says. was very kind indeed about the
He thought the body could be brought to this
city for burial. and Mrs. pwyer is to know to-
Kay h S sa be aos 80 nd hs HYs M be
in Calvary Cemetery. Mrs. Glennan wrote. to
Mrs. DyMera week ago. but wrote of nothing
Ono Of tho patients who was taken to North
Brother Island Yesterday, was q sanitary 20
the quarantine OF the infected house. Edward
Mhalen is tn man MAJ He was 3ng 81 the h three
Ely Els Ros East sns Went
mother telcp honeI to the Health Department. t
for has psen hoc to
The ep sanitary anita Squad June 15 1s uf He IS 3
years old and unmarried. He lives with his
widowed mother. who Is dependent ON him for
Alexander Niblo. 20 years old. a bookkeerer
who has been out Of employment several
painter. who has been earning :. living as
pedller were found sick with typh q Yesterday
te e
Chamhcrs Street Hospital ambulance sur
geon. called last night to u tcStry street a
big tenement house. refused to take away Mrs.
Caroline Melee and notified the Health Board
that the case might be typhus;
smith. became i'll two weeks ago ut BOZ West
1i3d street after some Polish jew carpenters
had been at work in the house. Last Sunday
to tho Board of Health that he believed the
child had typhuS.
Inspector o Byrnc disagreed with him. The
child died that afternoon. and the Coroners'
Office was notified four, or five times without
S,,r .{,.,., ,irrt,f
the Board of Health 4 at Bella's sister Ellen
had typhus Last nigh DEPUTY Coroner Walsh
made IN autopsy. and said that Bell had died
Of typhus The corpse and the sick child re-
main in The house.