New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-17
AT THE RECEIVING HOSPITAL.
ISOLATION OF THE LITTLE BUILDING IN EAST
SIXTEENTH sT-THE FLOATING HOS
PITAL NOT READY YET.


Over on the east side OF the city, where gas works
smoke and blaze and fume night and day, ana where
the island begins it stretches TO the north
is n little two-stOry building that Is used receiving
hospital by the Board OF Health The last two blocks
of East SiXteenthst. beyond Avenue Z, are gwen up
TO gasworks the southern side, and to the street
Cleaning Department stables the Willard Parker Hos
pital and this little receiving pa the north side
The latter is well Isolated from the nearest edge of the
popuous portion OF the city. which Is distant two long
blocks The many children who prancc on the side
walks paddle the gutter and roll In tho street I'm the
tenement house quarter on the west side 81 Avenue G
rarely stray down there over the smooth asphalt pave
ment Of siXteenthst. occasional ambulance rolls
along 10 the river side and there discharges its patients
into the little receiving hospital directly into the
boat that is take them TO North Brother Island
III winter the white carpet OF snow IS rarely dis
turbed except by the ambulance wheels, and In sum
mer the pavement kept smooth and clean by oc-
oasional showers, Is seldom defllcd by traffic
Victims OF smallpox. typhrs fever cholera ana
other contagious and infections diseases disappear behind
the fence that guards the receiving hospital. TO
come out again cured or dead.
Yesterday the new hospital barge lay at the pier
with Its doubledecks boxed In TO form wards and state
rooms. The sound Of the hammer and came
through the ports and gangways. hundred cots and
all the apparatus necessary fer the Of many
patients board. but the barge not ready
for occupancy yet. The carpenters still In pos
session outside In the street stood Ominous. black
ambulance with two smallpox patients aboard, waiting
TO be transferred TO the receiving hospital to tho
Island. An occasional curious straggler looked from
respectful distance through The large open windows in
the second story, under the low roof Of the hospital
building, and wondered how the poor girl taken there
OH Thursday with the cholera getting Those
who mustered up courage enough to inquire were told
That her condition improving. R0undsnan No.
ISIS, with corporas guard OF patrOlGcn, to It
hat unauthorized person boarded the hospital barge
entered the quarantino building. But 50 complete
is the isolation Of this spot, though the borders Of
the most popuous quarter in the city, that the rounds
mans solitude broken only by the presence Of
few reporters, whom he entertained with RENT
nsccnccs Of his experience with the black fever In South
Africa and the yellow fever and smallpox on ship
board while in the United STATES Navy seasoning his
remarks with much good advice about the foolish
OF getting scared, because out Of u million
fellow citizens had the cholera.
To day tomorrow gate will be put across six
fecnlh-st,, at the Willard Parker Hospital, and the
whole section will be turned into "A cholera camp with
stands for ambulances and sheds for ambulance
horses. The Willard Parker Hospital will be used for
the isolation and observation Of suspects and persons
who have been exposed To cOntagfOn.