New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-01
ANOTHERTYPHUS OUTBREAK
THIRTEEN NEW CASES DISCOVERED.
A WHOLESALE REMOVAL OF RUSSIAN HbDhH"

A WHOLESALE REMOVAL OF RUSSIAN HEBREW
REFUGEES TO NORTH BROTHER ISLAND
An unusual step in the direction Of stamping ou'
typhus foyer In this city was taken by DE- cS,uS
Edison Yesterday, with the consent OF the hea'i'''
Commissioners. lie gave orders Tor the remoV" Va
lO2 Russian Hebrew refugees from the lodging houSo
No. AZ East Twelfth-st. to North Brother islahu'
The outbreak Of fever first discovered III tn'
lodging house about three weeks ago. ana since mon
6ftvthree typhus patients have been sent from 'he
house 10 the island. Nine OF the refugees WIN n"
been held in quarantine In the house were at'acheu
with the fever yesterday morning, and were renoVo"'
Dr Edison then said 10 was high time that the resi-
OF the refugees there should be sent 10 some Pi'o
whore they could have better air and more opportunity
for exorci,e He feared that the conditions IN inc
bousc were becoming too much like those on the
Infected steamship Massila, which carried the refugees
to this city. al,
In the afternoon the ambuances OF the Health
Department carried siXtytwo Of the dodgers 10 tho
dock at sixteenthst and the East River. There no
refugees were taken aboard the steamer trahhNh
Edison and they were carried to North Brother Island
befor, dark The remaining forty odgcrS in the house
I'm Tvelft-st will DC taken to the island today Then
there will be none Of the refugees who came on the
Massiln left I'm city except those who recovered
from the fever and were removed from the Island to
LODGING houses in pike and Madison SITS. last week
Tbe women and children who have escaped the fever
and the men will be placed In army tents, where they
win he comfortable Permission 10 walk about one
unoccupied portion Of the Island viii be given to the
refugees whle they kept there under observation
Tho bedding which they have used In Tweiust' VIII
be- DESTROYED aud the Lodging house VIII be diSicc'cd
and cleaned thoroughly.
DIR. Edison yesterday induced the officers Of the
United Hebrew Charities to send Hebrew COOKS 10 ''o
island to cook food for the refugees and to PROVIDE
" kosher, meat for them. The Russian Hebrews are
so careful in following their religious customs that
they refuse to partake Of any food winch Us non
kosher 1t is said that one OF the women VINO
came on the Massilla had failed to provide her own
food for the voyage before the vessel sailed RON
Marselles and she nearly starved herself to death
rather than eat the food provided for passengers by
the ships steward In order to save her life the
ships surgeon drew out two OF her front tocth and
forced lI1uid food down her throat with squirt gun
The refugees who recovered from the fever on the
lsnnd refused to eat food which had been pruVueu
for them there and they were in a feeble state when
they sent to the lOdeng-houses In PKG ana
Madison SITS. DR.. Edison Informed yesterday that
several OF at No. 40 Pike-s were go weak that
they fell over each other when thcy tried to wink
about md they needed decucies which the Keeper
OF the house could not afford 20 give to them a "
quest TO provide such extra nourishment was fent
20 the Office Of the United Hebrew Charities.
The refugees who were attacked with yphus fever
I'm the lodging house No. AZ East 1wenh ST. yestcf
day were Herman Finkclstcin age eighteen; Snmne
Markicowsld twenty sevcn: fnsar Drot twenty two
Sarah Prncger, eighteen; Rcbecca DECKER, twenty
Dora Decker eighteen: Josef Prpcgcr FIVE; Norris
Rudrnnn twenty eight and solomon pcstim thirty one
years old
-Four other typhus patients were removed from the
city before noon Fanny oegcl. age Twenty-Five, ana
Nina Ilagcr twenty four years Old showed symptoms
Of tie fever ut SO 40 r1lScst. OF the observa-
lf,f lul I.a.p fufIfh gNUp a
60 contagion. Isaac Abramoyiu, axe nineteen, was
sent from 40. - Forsyth st., whcrc he lived The
sanitary Inspectors had been keeping watch OF him
because 1t known that he had been exposed 10
the fever at ~. IS Monroe st. lie was sent to the
island he exhibited the symptoms OF the
disease. Nathaniel Davis. ffty five years old. was
sent to the island from bellevue Hospital. where |
h. had been under observation since Thursday. He |
had been sleeping I'm lodging houses lately and possibly
may caught tho fever IN the Phenx lodging house
ia tho BoWcry the only thus far known to have
been Infected Since his removal b the ID" pltal he
ld been dcHOs. and could not tell the names II the
lodging houses IN which he had slept. lie va, In one
u the alcoholic cells for time. and on saturday vas
sent to isoatd ro'n f,r observation symptoms |
~ typhus recognized yesterday. and he was sent
away H. the Island Davis was taken to the hospital |
in Gouvcrfe Hospital ambulance, md II was said
yesterday that he slept Thursday night In the Lodging
rom IN he bl-omcnt Of Bellevue Hospital with twenty |
or thirty other who we've not sick enough 20 h. |
sent o. the wards The lodging room WAS fumigatef |
yesterday. Dr. Bson said that Davis probably was
not IN condition impirt typhus TO other person,
until yesterday.
\ rImor that ~ IN" nurses In tho typhus fever
pavons Oh North Brother islagd had been attacked |
with the disease heard I'm tho orce of the Health
Board Yesterday. but the officials there sad they had |
no such Information DR. Ed-On was ashod II he |
knew that any II the nurses on The island we're ~
with typhus ard h. refused b. answer There seemed
lslfs hat f he ne
sick. either from the ercts OF ovcrwOrk from the
fever
one case ~ smallpox reported IN tho city yc~ter
day The patient was an Italian living at No. Us
Thompson Il. lie sent ~ the island.
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