New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-02
TYpHUS FEVER REAPPEARS.
TWO CASES OF THE DISEASE In THE CITY.
TAKEN III, IN PARK ROW LODGING HOUSES

TAKEN III IN PARK ROW LODGlNG HoooH'
THE FEvER's SPREAD NOT PROBABLE
rb. REMEMBRANCE OF typhus fever In the city, ~.
an interval Of several months causeu soiNo .n,
IN the Health Department yesterday. Two MN w.,
had been found sick with the disease Ill WV
n,tals were removed to North Brother hla". ~
"a. usunl precautions to prevent II spread Vi w"
,orion were undertaken promptly. IL was ',
that the sick men had gone to the ho'p''i' -''
lodging houses In Park Row. ,.,
an Wednesday afternoon a message was sc"' -,
rclIcyue Hospital to the Bureau Of Contagious
cases saving that there was case IN inc "o'r. ,
suspiciously like typhuS fever DIR. Diihhs'd' 80
=, in charge of the bureau while Chief lh'pooD'
po,ert. is attending the Health Congress In McA'o
cent an inspector the hospital TO make an
,o, In a tent Isolated from the hospital wilidS' lay
,,,chacI Shea a longshorcman, twenty SIX years Wv"
ue had walked into the hospital on Tuesday e'ei'e
and had been treated In one OF the wards ior w." 49,,
The physicians had no.iccd Suspicious li'" VIZ
body and had him removed to the tent lor oo'
lion The Inspector examined shea and SAID h' wac
rcr,pc from typhns fever. An ambulance Oh ,'o
Health Department called TO take the Pa',u"'
n the Reception Hospital in East sixteenths'' Inv
ton, and the hospital ward In which shea fau IAN
,ro,c dincctcd Immediately and the inspector o'ue'c
that a watch be kept upon the persons WIZ ''''i
heen exposed to the fever Shea said that he la '''ps
in the LODGING house at No 173 Park Row b'io'o Nv
wont IN the hospital. The Inspector can9c" Wv
lodging house to be- disnfccted also. ,
Late at night the inspector was sent 10 nN'""
,otc suspicious case at the Chambers street HOS
initial md found william Bell, messenger i"I'S
i've years old III with typhoid fever b'h '..'
h.cn sent 10 the hospital I'm the afternoon ipm ''o
lodging hou,c No. I0i Park Row, but lie SiIu
he also had slept lately in the lodging house. ~
purl, Row lie was sent II the Reception Ho'
plial about midnight, and the places In wmch ne
had cxpJ.cd persons to contagicn were di'iHlo''o"
before morning. Yesterday Bell and Shea were
transferred to tho typ.ms pavilion on North br''neF
Island.
Tho two lodging houses I'm Park Row were III
sncct,d Yesterday. but persons In either hoISc
were found T. have symptoms Of tho fcVcr' Dr.
Dillingham; said yesterday that the Inmates OF the
hou.os would b. kept under observation Tor ume'
II was not known how Bell and shea contracted
tho fever. ,.,. g.,
Typhus fever was discovered early In FEBRUARY IN
several l,dclug Jusos occupied by Russian llcOTc"
refugees who had been brought TO me ciiy on
wa stopped about 200 persons were removed 10
North Ilother Island. About forty OF the suhcr
err. died The last reported case before mo his
ot-e WINS STAMPED in tbs city was on jury
TO- since then the city has been free from typhls:
n is not believed that germs 81 the disease remained
In the city sine" the last outbreak. ana y Is els-
pcci,d that t. men caught the fever from some
Ithcr Ipdecr I'm Park Row. who bad carried IN
tccicd clothing from Europe. Dr. Dllnnghhn NeS,
torlav expressed IN, opinion that the Illness OF zen
and Sl,n was not likely 10 cause any serious
spread Of typhus I'm the city.