New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-23
TYPHUS IN LODGING HOUSES
SEVERAL SUSPECTED Patients UNDER
GUARD.
STRENUOUS EFFORTS OF THE HEALTH BoARr

! STRENUOUS EFFOkIS OF IHt nENh%" -'O'
TO COPE WITH THE DREADED FEVER.
! suspected cases Of typhus fever in lodging houses
which were not known to be infected have chuseu
anxiety I'm the Health Department. Dr. cyrus hosoh
said Yesterday that if the cases turned ont 10 DC o
renlilne iyphus there would be reason Tor aaf' oe
cause there might be great difficulty in checking the
spread Of the disease. The condition OF Max busch
the stage carpenter formerly employed III the i"aia
Theatre who sent to Bellevue Hospital from 'ne
Phoenix Westinghouse al No. 50 BOwery last week.
was said to be critical yesterday. lie was u'luer
observation IN the Reception Hospital In East ok
tecnth st. and his symptoms were so suspicious that
DR.. Edison would not say that De did not nave 'he
dreaded fever
At the Phoenix lodging house DR.. EdSon fouhu
Samuel Goldman. aged wenty-one Ill from Suspicious
fever on saturday ard sent him to room over tho
stable OF the Dl-infcctlng Corps at No IFS Nor'h-S'
Goldman had been a regular lOdgcr at NO b3 bo"ety
for several months and not known to nave Deeh
in contact with a typhus patient. In tie room Ill
Wortl-si. he was watched by trained nurse Yes
terday morning rash appeared on his body ana ne
was sent the Reception Hospital to be kept under
observation there with Busch. Max Tangerman who
was removed Bellevue Hospital from the Immigrant
boarding house. No. Grcenwlch-st was IN separate
room yesterlay and his symptoms were suspicious.
Dr. Edison said that while 1T possible that Busch
Goldman and Tangerman had the typhus fever, it
would not be prudent to place them with the typhuS
fever patients on North Brother Island long as there
was doubt rs to the nature Of their Illness. They are
Isolated at present where they cannot be danger to
the public
The Health Department is not TO be caught mapping
however, even If the typhus fever has made lis np
pcarancc the lodging houses where 1t not looked
for Policemen Of the sanitary squad began n sys-
temac nspccti0n of the lodging houses In the city on
Saturday evening. by order Of the Health Board, and
directed the propretors Of the houses to keep more
complete record OF the dodgers in future. The popula
ton Of these houses varies according to the weather
ON cold and stormy night, the number OF the lodScrs
in the houses Is near 1900, while in pleasant summer
weather the number falls below 10000. In case OF
spread Of typhus fever i'm the city, the most daSr
may be caused by those dodgers known as transehts
who sleep I'm one house night and In another house
the next night one such person, II he carried the
e,rIn4 the fever in his clothing, might Infect hall
dozen lodging houses I'm week Under the system
which has prevailed in the houses for long time.
there has been no means Of tracing "tran>cnt from
one place 10 another II registers have been kept
all Of the houses the names OF the lodS r.
have been enicrcd merely as " SMITH or Jones,
without any other Information to designate the per
SONS Hereafter each ldgcr who admitted to
house must have h, name registered In iu!l' with ms
age nativity occupation and The nddrcss Of tl place
whore he slept on the previous night. The sanitary
police VIII make frequent visits TO the ldein;housrS
- sec thai the requirements a, to the registration "i
lodecrs arc ol,ycd and the Health Boaid may revoke
he license Of lodging house keeper and close mp his
place II h. fails To obey the orders The prppetors f
the lodging houses have been warned also to promptly
report any suspicious Illness among the loir'rs. ani
soifin,crc,t viii lead them make such reports II
a casr of typhus fever T. dlscoi erred In one 81 the
lodging houses therefore Il Will he possible for tho
sanitary officials 20 ind ont where the patient has h'n
sleeping and take measures Ia proect othcr hdSer7
from contadon II is expected also that the ncw reg
~ A.ss fy4 .f
mcnt in tnclr search for criminals who I've In the
lod cling houses.
While the Inspection Of the lodgn houses Is pre-
caution against the possible sprad Of typhus fever.
step, will taken also tO protect the dodgers against
smallpox. The ten young physicians who We're ap'
poletcd rs temporary assistants 10 DR.. Eds"n last
week viii be sent 10 tho lodging houses at night with
thc sanitary pol men and will vaccnatc the odgcr'
who have not been vacclnatcd recently. In tmer-
renclc, the Health Department assumes tho authority
TO compel vaccination. and the police enfocc the orders
Of the vaccinators.
Another death from typhus fever occurred on North
Brother Island Yesterday. The victim was haricl
Ho,sman aged sixty eight. Of the Russian Hebrew
refugee, who were to the island from the lodging
hou,e No . Essex It. ono und1ubtcd case or the
fever developed I'm the house IN E'>cNs YESTERDAY.
The patent wns solomon Lcscrvctsky thirty years old
wfo was I'm the employ OF shapiro, the Keeper oil inc
hon-c lie was removed 10 the island.
the afternoon when the fortysix Russian refugee
who had been held In quarantine IN Shapiins lodging
house were removed 10 the lSdgDg house No ~ East
Twelfth Il. a crowd Of fully 300 Hebrews livlng IN
the nerhborhOOd blocked Esscx-st. when the ambu'
lance, OF the Health Department were being load"
-7lth the eXilcs II with difficulty That the police
could keep the crowd away from the anlbuances
Thirteen children placed ia one OF the wagons
In others were carried the grown people and their
baggage shapiro his wife and children ana TWO
servants remained In the house after the refugees hah
been removed 10 Twelfth The house Will be fuIni
gated thoroughly before any other dodgers are per
ttcd Ia etcr It. All of the refugees who came on the
steamship Mas.illa and obtained lodgings In the clty
are now either at 80 ~ East fwelflst. or on NDrih
Brother Island except the four who died from the fever
Dr. Joyce. OF No. 2l7 East Thirty ir~t-st. ycster-
dav sent 10 Dr. E-m report that four children were
suffering from smallpox In the tenement house 40
400 East Thrty-hr ts but Inspector Dlnnglhm as
ccr,an,d that the children sick with chicken
pnx. Or. Edison said that no new cases ~ smallpox
had been discovered In the city during the day.
A NEWBURG TYPHuS PATIENT DEAD.
Ncwburg y Y, Feb. 22.-Thc Italian who was tak'n
to the pesthousc suffering with yphus fever dci This
morning seven other Immigrants who were removed