The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-13
WATCHING AND WAITING.
ELEVEN NEW CASES OF TYPHUs AERB
AND ON ELLIS ISLAND YEsTERDAE

ELEVEN NEW CASES OF rYPHUs AERB
AND ON ELLIS ISLAND YEsTERDAE
All OF the Patients Taken 70 North Brother
leland ana the Houses Where They HsA
stopped QuarantiaeA ana FunigstsA-
Tracing the Other Passengers who Cane
In tho steerase OF the Massilis-Thers
Have Been No Deaths as Yet Anons the
Firy.eisht Cases on North Brother Island
Fifty-eight cases OF typhus came suddenly
to tho notice ofthe health officers In this 81 y
on Thursday. With the utmost possible speed
the patients were removed from their sur
roundings and taken to the hospital on North
Brother Island. Tho lodging houses In which
they had been found were disinfected and
everything possible was done to prevent the
spread OF the disease.
Yesterday eleven more cases in q more or
less viruent form were discovered and a.
quickly auarantined. Whether this is the end
or not nobody can say. DR.. Cyrus Edison says
It is the greatest and most sudden outbreak Of
a dangerous contagious disease ever known
in the history Of New York. 1t has not yet DO.
come epidemic. being confined to those Rus.
sian Hebrews who were all subjected to the
same influences and to contact with ono
another on board the steamship Massilia. But
the greatest alarm Is occasioned by the fact
that for the past week. while the germs Of tho
disease were developing In those now afilicted.
they mingled freely with hundreds Of their
countrymen in the Jewish quarter on the east
side. Wore tho disease to develop in single
individual here outside Of those who we're on
board the Masslia. there would be danger OF .
most terrible epidemic. These Jewish work
ers with whom the infected immigrants con-
sorted are mostly Of weak. debilitated
physique. thousand OF them. owing to the;
cloakmakers' strike. are now idle. The health
officers say that there Is nothing to do but to
wait and watch. and disinfect and fumigate a.
far as possible the squalid quarters OF these
people.
Only flfty-seven cases oftyphus were reported
In yesterdays papers. but there was one that,
In the hurry ofthe moment, was overlooked In
the clerks office. Elite Hoch. little girl OF B
years. was removed from the lodging house at
Essex street, with her mother. Celia Hoch. on
Thursday afternoon. She stared wonderfully
at the driver as he carried her out OF the house
and placed her in the ambulance. and seemed
delighted when she found that she was going
to have ride. Her mother sat huddled in .
corner OF tho wagon. holding her head and
moaning in Hebrew and German that it was
bursting. bursting"
Throughout the night DR.. Edison. with his
inspectors. went about from one lodging house
to another. where the Hebrews who had como
over on the Masllia were stopping. carefully
examining all the inmates. At 1O2 Orchard
street. where there were dozen Of them. none
OF whom had shown any symptoms OF the dis.
ease tho day before. they found Johann Abra-
NOV. 80 years old. and his son. Asriel. years
old. both complaining OF a dizzy pain In the
head and parched feeling all over the body.
They had tyrhus fever. and all the other In.
mates of tho house had been near them for ten
days. They were removed to the reception
hospital at the foot OF East Sixteenth street
and taken from there to North Brother
Island.
At IS Norfolk street they found Nathan Alb.
ramovitch. % years old. with the same symp-
toms. One man had been removed from this
house the day before. Later in the morning
DR.. Edison found Joseph Decker. Is years old.
at AZ East Twelfth street. and promptly had
him removed to North Brother Island. Decker
was the sixteenth case from the Twelfth street
house. On Thursday night DR.. Edison said:
Il visited the lodging house at 40 Pike
street. where seven OF the Hebrews who came
on the Massilia were stopping. but found no
symptoms OF the disease"
Yesterday afternoon Solet Solnick. a Russian
boy of II. was taken from this house to the
hospital. suffering all the pains that accom-
pany the first stage OF typhus fever. Nothing
could show better how ,jif1,cult n ia to datect
tbe svnnt,ms ~ this disease Tbis mada 9y.
natients in al thot were found in this citv ve,,
terday.
When tho Massilia arrived at this port she
had 271 Russian Hebrew storage pas
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hava haon daharrod frono 10 nd;no IN An,ar,oan
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OF the remaining twenty-three. 80 they were
landed on Ellis Island to be sent back to Eu.
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rope at inc earnest possible moment