New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-03
PRECAUTIONS OF THE HEALTH BOARD.
GETTING A FLOATING HOSPITAL READY FOR Isl
EVERYBODY on THE ALERT.

PRECAUTIONS OF THE HEALTH BOARD.
GETTING FLOATING HOSPITAL READY FOR USE
EVERYBODY on THE ALERT.
President Wilson, Of the Health Board. went to the
pier at Sixteenth-st. and the East River yesterday
morning and took possession OF the Floating Hospital
OF the st. Johns Guild, the temporary use OF which
offered to the Board ana accepted on Thursday.
lie gave orders for incIosing the upper decks and
equippng them with hospital beds and other things
needed for the treatment OF cholera patients. Then
he went downtown and asked the Board OF Estimate
to appropriate $4,000 for the alterations ana equip
mcnt OF the Floating Hospital. His request
complied with. Later he sald IL have received
offer from q large establishment In the city to
supply ten ambulances within twenty -four hours II
they are needed. All necessary supplies and nurses
for the Floating Hospital be procured soon
as we want them. Every detail for the isolation
and care OF cholera patients l. complete. SIN We
nope mat INC VIII NOT come 70 the city this
year."
Dr. Dillingham;, one of the experts in the Bureau
Of Contagious Diseases reported that he had nvesti
gated q case Of stOmachache and case Of da:rhoea
which had been reported as suspicious by young
German physician I'm RivngtOn-st The patients were
Joseph Etwanig, Russian Hebrew who arrived In
this city less than week ago a passenger on the
steamship Russia, al: Frank Hcuser plumber
who has lived in tho city several years. Etwsnis
was boarding at No. 95 Orchardst. lie was I'm Q
halfstarved condition when he arrived there, ana
he overloaded his stomach with meat. melons Anl
beer. lie vomIted freely and suffered from cramps,
but DR.. Dillingham; said there reason to think
the had cholera
Heuser was found in his nome at No. 142 Orchard
ST. suffering from a severe attack OF diarrhoea. DIR.
Dillingham; could discover nQhing suspicious In his
illness At III. Bureau OF COnta gious Diseases II was
said that thirst for notoriety probably had move1
the young German doctor to report the Is sus
pcious
There has been a steady increase In the number
OF complaints about nuisances In the city this week.
The record for day was broken on Thursday when
800 complaints sent to the Health Board.
IL broken again yesterday, when over GOO com.
plants received Everything that be
pected Of being likely to help spread cholera Is COM
planned Of, from lcaky house-draln to heap Of
refuse In the street. Many OF the complaints are
sent through the police They all investigated by
the sanitary inspectors, and constant stream OF
orders for the abatement Of the nuisances flows from
the Office of sanitary superintendent Edison.
The work Of the police i'm helping the Health De-
partment 10 discover the nulsanees was mentioned
b. President Martin at meeting Of the Police Board
Yesterday. Commissioner MacLean said he had been
about the city since the orders were given TO the
police TO report nusances, and he had noticed that
the Ordiasc.s orbdding the throwing If fh into tho
streets being violated In MANY places. lie
thought the police should be vigilant In detect
ing aud arrcstng persons who persisted I'm deflina
the streets. , A.,
Late in the afternoon President Wilson, Of the
Health Board, President Martin OF the Polee boarn.
and Health officer jenkins met and passed a formal
resolution authorizing the expenditure of the $4,000
which the Board OF appointment had voted Tor the
alteration ana sSnp prrsS 81 ha as pat FROM
Buzzard's Bay.