Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-11
TWO SUMMER GUESTS
Whose Arrival Has Been Dreaded
and Feared by Thousands.
SMALLPOX RAGING IN NEW YORK
And Fellow Fever Reported at Quarantine
OF Florida's Coast.
PROGRESS OF THE DISEASES RAYAGES

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, Aug 10.-Si1 cases of small
pox were reported to the Bureau of Conta.
gious Diseases to-day. This was a marked
increase over the usual daily num-
ber reported of late. The In
spectors will begin tomorrow to
| make house-to-house search for concealed
Cases. II think there will be many more
cases in the infected Districts" says DR..
Roberts, chief of the bureau, but there il
little danger of an epidemic These cases
are the result of the failure of certain Ital-
ians to get vaccinated at the proper time
this year.
There have been 250 cases since the begin
ming of this year, but do not regard this
fact as alarming. The districts infected are
the italian quarter in the vicinity of
Thompson, Sullivan, Spring and Prince
streets and South Fifth avenue, and the
Italian quarter in Harlem. Many Italians
have an aversion to vaccination, and will
not submit to it Voluntarily"
The Cases Reported in a Day.
Annie Calvin, As years old, of 1872 Spring
street, was the first case reported to-day.
She was sent to North Brother Island.
On Tuesday the department received a pos
tai card from Mrs Byrnes, housekeeper of
the tenement 101 Houston street. The card
said that Joseph Daneri, who lived with his
wife and sister on the top floor, had
been sick for week, and there was
much secrecy about his case. An inspector
found Daneri suffering from smallpox.
When the inspector called this morning to
arrange for the removal of DaDeri the man
was dead. The house was thoroughly dis
IT, al a1
The health officers have learned where he
was employed and will vaccinate everybody
who was associated with him.
Baptista Bonletti, SO years old, chef at
the Merchants Club, was another of to-
DAVIS victims. His brother was taken down
with the disease some time ago, and, al
though Bonletti was exposed, he continued
his work at the club until two days ago,
when he became i'll. He was removed to
the Riverside Hospital The kitchen and
employees of the club will be inspected.
Yellow Fever Off the Florida Coast.
A Tampa, Fla, special gives the follow
ing regarding report current there OF yellow
fever at quarantine station. Four cases of
yellow fever have developed on board the
four-masted American schooner, Eva
Douglass, which arrived at the Mullet Key
quarantine station the Sd, from
Havana on her wav to Port Tampa, to load
with phosphate. The schooner was
thoroughly fumigated and then placed in
quarantine for five days. On the afternoon
of the 9th the Captain sent word ashore
that he was sick. DR.. Porter, the State
health officer, had just arrived at the station,
and on investigation pronounced the Cap
tain's sickness yellow fever. He then
placed Captain Bartt, of the quarantine
station, IN charge of the Douglass,
and instructed him to move her over
under the point of Egmont Key, about six
miles away from the station and out of the
track of vessels, where there is good
anchorage. This was done, and DR.. Porter
is now on board the vessel with an ex-
perienced yellow fever nurse to assist him
in caring for the cases which have already
and may hereafter develop.