New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-16
THE TYPHUS FEVER COLONY.
EIGHT SUFFERERS ADDED TO ITYESTERDAY.
FEARS THAT THE PLAGUE MAY NOW APPEAK
,voxc ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS.

ANON, ITALIAN lMMlrhNNif'
The Health Dcpartmcnt's steamboat carried Ten
more typhus fever patients from this city 10 'ol'"
Brother Island Yesterday Milo and Gerscheh 90
lenka, children, were found SICK sunday eNcni"5
at No. 80 IIester-st where they had peeh "d1."o"
by one of DR.. Cyrus EdSons assistants i"'i
two brothcrs died on the steamship Massia and
were buried at sea Abraham MeIhiei
i'll with the fever in the lodging house No.
Essex-st. yesterday morning. In 'he ai'elnoo"
seven of the dodgers at No. AZ East Tweltthst
hocame ill-Jyith symptoms of typhus and were re-
moved. They were Alta Wittgenstcn. age seven
Gcntcl Wittrcnstein four: Frda Praga, ten
Hannah Rosenblat twenty four; Daniel kosenpF'u'
three: Schendel Abramow, three, and Safah Aura
NOW, two years Old
There are now eighty-scven sufferers from
tvphus fever on North Brother Island. All oi
them are Russian Hebrew refugees VINO came I'd
this city on the steamship MasSllla. lherc ht'
been no death in the colony on the isiahu, 'l'c
sanitary officials said yesterday, except the uta'i
OF an infant late on Sunday night. The babe lVed
only a few minutes after birth, its mother pelnS
a sufferer from the fever. One OF the tents wilch
had been erected on the island, to he used only i"
case Of emergency, caught fire from a Stove OH
Saturday night, and four tents were destroyed DE-
fore the flames were eXtingushed. As NOBODY
was in any of the tents, there was no serious
alarm on account of the fire
At the office of the Health Board yesterday
anxiety was caused by tclegrams Which stated that
Italians who were passengers on the Massilla had
been attacked with typhus fever in Chicago, 'altl-
more Newburg and Providence. dispatch TO
DR. Edison from Health Officer Chaplin, Of Prov-
dencr. read: italian taken sick Tuesday, took
10 bed Wednesday Temperature Sa'uriaN'
Io4 i.2; to-day. 1Oe I-2; flushed face, TO crup-
ton probably typhus.
4 dspatch from Trenton, y. j.. stated that two
Italians from the steamship MassiIia were IN that
city. hut did not state if they were Ill. Dr.
Edison WAS asked if the Italians should he sent
back to New-Nork. and he replied: NO Dr.
Edson's assistants have kept watch of about forty
or the Italians who came TO this city on the
Mas,ila and intended 10 remain here. None OF
them had exhibited any symptoms OF the lever
Yesterday and no suspicious illness among the
other Italians was reported by physicians me
Health Board to-day may order n general scarch
for Italians who were passengers on the injected
steamship, and try 10 have them colonlzcd unu'
the danger period has passed
The action OF Health Officer Jenkins IN stopping
the Russian rcfuqccs on other steamships was
praised at Sanitary Headquarters yesterday. II
,yos said that the fever outbreak might bc the
OF STOPPING Illf kuSNldU ih''lfN 'HIi-i"''''
10 this country for time. President Wilson OF
the Health Board was in consultation with DR..
Jenkins on Sunday. and urged that TO more
refugees he permitted 10 enter the city until their
immunity from tvpLus fever was assured. The
Central Russian Refugee Committee of this city has
informed the Health Board that the committee will
nay the expense attending the care of the sick
refugees. and will give all possible aid in prevent
ing the spread Of typhus fever in the city.
JUDGE DAILY. RhineIander Stewart, Julien Davies
and Paul Dana went TO the Office of the Health
Board yesterday and said they represented the
residents of Clinton Place who objected TO the
establishment OF "A colony Of refugees IN the house
No. lO9 Clinton Place. They were informed
that tie house had been held empty in reserve, and
rha, il might not be necessary TO place in II any
Of the persons who had been exposed to the
fever
The Quarantine officials are still keeping a
sharp outlook for typhus fever among the lnml-
grants on incoming steamers. The steamship NY
" Berlin having been di-infcctcd and the Russian
Hebrews among her s'ceraec passengers removed
to Hoffman Island sic WAS allowed To come up
10 the city. The steamer obdam from kot'cr-
dam had 13e Russian Hebrews anon. her steer
l,, passengers They had been from four 10 rlN
weeks on their journey 10 Rotterdam and SiN-
fever had developed When their baggage had
Il, en- thoroughly di-nicctcd they were allowed
10 land The Rcd Star steamship Bclsenland ar
rived here with siNtys'ycn Russian Hebrews IN
her stccragc They were sent to Hoffman Island
and the ship thoroughly dl,niectc before sHe
was allowed to come up 10 her pier. ON board
the Cunard steamship Scrva there were $50 KuS-
sian Hebrews They were all sent 10 Holman
Island The ship was mmlsatcd and then al
lowed 70 come up 10 her pier.
Tho Commissioners Of the State Board of Emi-
grafton met at no Is Cortlandt-St YESTERDAY
and passed resolutions Offering the Health on
GERS Of the city the of The buildings on ward
Island for cases of typhus fever MS was
donr said Secretary Jackson. d" because the ON
mi,soners understand that the hospitals on North
Brother Island are crowded The buildings are
tho-c formerly used by the state Board oil Enll-
grafton for the detention Of immigrants. IN III
junction was recently obtained rcSttainln; 'he
State Board from selling the Wards IS'a"u