New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-18

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DR.. Edison Yesterday received the following letter
from C. W. Davis editor and publisher Of THE hin'er
hoC}, Rough Notes." Of Valate. y. y:
Dear sir: Nine Russian Hebrews from inc Mhssi"h
are I'm this village here by the Hebrew society III
New York Three Of them, nineteen. sixteen ana 'hr
teen years Old have the yphus fever, and have been
ouarantind by our Boar Of Health. I cannot give
their names Dr. James Green. OF Undertook. an
elderly man. who says he treated many cases OF the
fever AZ Elizabeth " j.. and at the Army barracks
near New York AT the time Of the War; has charge Oh
the cases. several Russians who preceded them mere
visited them before il was ascerancd that they hau TIE
fever
Or. Walter Wymann. surgeon General Mt Wnsnihe
ton D. g. yesterday sent the following telegram 10 DE-
Cyrus EiScn:
Please wirc at my expense number Of cases and
death, from typu, fever and your opinion as to ont
break. for publication in ab-tract.'
Dr. Edison sent III, reply Eighty nine cases Of
typhus to date entirely confined TO Russian Hebrews
Ma->illa passengers. No deaths rs yet y NUMBER
very sick. Outb ei. Of comparatively mild type All
exposed Hebrew rigdly Guaranteed. The disease we
hope. will lie confined 10 these people,
President Wilson. OF the Health Board. yesterday
saw MAYOR Grant and other members Of the Board Of
Estimate and Apportonmcnt. and obtained their con-
sent 10 the transfer Of $4,000 for building extra
pavllons on North Brother Island and paying salaries
Of extra physicians and TO be employed In the
nppolntcd the following physicians temporary assist
ants TO Dr. Edson: samuel /. Rome. No. Down
ing-,t.: Waller l.. Brown ~. 2jG West Twelfthst.;
G. H. Archibald 40. 80 East Twenty scvcnth-st' F. j.
Br)ckway. so. 344 West FnySXth It.; Dix \. Cheva-
lcr. So lob scycnthavc; James ;. Enus, NO. III
East seventeenth st George l.. Nicholas. No 3oO Man
hattanavc.: ". ". seward 40. 1920 East Thirty sixth
4 GEO gc D. Wheat No. O. Fast sixty ninth-st. and
Davis Cox 40. l2G West Forty--lXth-st. Dr. q. L.
Miclon Of No. 1850 LcNngtOn-ave., was appointed
temp tnry assistant to Dr. Pcrcval on North Brother
Island The physician, Will receive 800 month for
their services.
Mayor GIANT YESTERDAY received from the Board Of
Health the report " Dr. Edison. chief inspector regard
ing the return to NcwYor Of tho two Italians from
the steamship Ma-,ia who went To Trenton. The
Mayor sent cope, Of Dr. EdSon', Gcport to Governor
Flower and 10 >lc stat" Board Of Health Of Albany
II (, expected that the matter will be brought to tho
attention 81 Albeit and the State authorities
Tho tr,uile caused to the steamship companies by
the strict Inspection put In force after the discovery
~ T. ph. fever among Tho Passengers on the Ma,si
has cluscd them to take extraordinary precautions
against shipping any passengers likely 10 have the
fcvrr Yesterday the international Navigation Com
rany which controls the Inman and Red star lines.
cent cable dispatch To- IL agents abroad nStructing
thom net to take any more Russian Hebrews aS pas
-onror~ for the present Emil L. Boa>. agent OF the
Ilamtur. American Line. Yesterday received cable
mad. arrangement, rs which all Russian Hebrews
applying for pn.~a:" would be examined by tw.oo
baggage OF such Immigrant, n arr pissed VIII lie
nmis,t.d in Hamburg icior' IT IS put on board ship
The steamship Dcyouil. from Glasgow. had sixty
Russian Uohrcws among hcr steering" passengers
Thl wcrr detained ON hoard fJr further inspection
n. were also twenty five Russian Hebrews on the
Wne-Iaud. from Antwerp. Those who had been do
iar'd for observation on IL. OLDHAM ana III" S'ryla
vcrr allowed To- land. At the office II the Russian
Consul ',orl In stat" f.. Yesterday. II was said that
q large number ~ Russian hebrews had applied 10 bc
.out Lack fn Ii,-ii They destitute and NiouS
f. 90 back 10 their former homes. In IN" last thr"
months there have been 800 such applications at the
In,- INN Cln.nlntr.