The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-23
TYPHUS IS A TOUGH ENEMY.
A THOROUGH sURvEY. OF THE L0DG.
I've HOUSES MADE yECESSARX

A THOROUGH sURvEY OF THE L0DG.
iH6 HOUSES MADE yKCESSARH
1ato the Pest House IN Tweifth Street.
1000 italian Fsniltes Found Free from
Infeetion-Diseass Spread BY Fedaiers.
There are now three men In the reception
hospital for contagious diseases In East Twen-
ty.sixth street suffering with what the Health
Department doctors fear lie typhus. Should It
prove to be typhus. DIR. Edison says. there Is
occasion for the gravest alarm. Mono OF the
men is known to have come In contact with
any OF the fever stricken Russian Hebrews
who arrived on the Massilis and each Of them
is known to have been Ill one or more days In q
crowded lodging house.
The men are Max Busch. who was taken to
Bellevue Hospital from the Phoenix lodg-
Ing house at 53 Bowcry on Wednesday. Max
Tangermann. who lived at the double lodging
house 2 Greenwich street and s Battery place.
and Sam Goldman OF SO Bowery. who was taken
to the hospital yesterday from the room over
the Health Departments stables at 1913 Worth
street, where he had boon In quarantine since
Saturday. The inspectors found Goldman In
bed In the Phoenix House when they went
there to inquire into the sanitary condition OF
the place and to learn II Busch could have
como into contact with any OF the Massilia's
passengers.
The total extent OF tho spread OF typhus
fever among the Russian Hebrews now in
quarantine in the different lodging houses Of
tho Hebrew charities organizationwillb be defln-
itely known within q few days. To-day ts the
DR.. Edison says that those who show no symp-
toms by. the fifteenth day from Feb: IL may be
said to have escaped contagicn. In order to
under 0h69rvattOn
much az possible the forty-six dodgers at
EsseX street were rem0yea sse
in fhIs fly There we're my me men women
now full. with ninety. six inmates. $500.
A great crowd assembled in Essex street to
watch the removal. and the officers Of the
Is new one. built in, 1890, I'VE signs Ar ar
Hotel dc Rnssia conducted BY J. p Shapiro.
and boarding house for Russian Hebrey i'm i'm:
Els iSar eRdrsn
at oP
other purposes. They have not been accom-
psd gy se Of the es %ea
or what houses they visited. pr. Edison says.
and the other doctors Of the department cor
actually in attendance on any one In whom
the typhus fever had developed. there was no
Of The at ts
dodgers under their charge.
the doors Of s Essex street since the auaran:
tine was established.on Feb IL. appeared glad
Of sSd and whe 1hs saap
with its brown blinds. drew up at the, curb.
each pressed forward to be the first to leave.
The children and the women were taken first.
Thirteen little ones were crowded into the
ambulance while the coupe was AL made e. TO ac-
soof 1s 4 Gs to
sons The majority Of the men carried small
bundles AZ were n t th but the adults a ab
children could not have laughed more heartily
nor played more merrily. II they had been IN
holiday clothes starting for day OF enjoyment
sGoa the hoHss empty the sHntaTy
until the period Of incubation Of typhus fever
is past. In the mean time. SHOULD any suspi-
RUSSIAN Ga Hebrews s IN the city tie Health De-
partment will send Thorn to s Essex street to be
~a Asrier Hoffman so years old. who with his
family OF five was taken to North Brother
Island on Feb. II. died there yesterday morn
pected to be liaht. More than 70 per cent Of
thosb down with the disease are under 25
years Of age. and the doctors say that even in
are young. All Of the four who have died were
The special corps OF ten doctors assigned to
make ouse,to-house canvass and eXamina-
ton Of the italian tenements, reported to the
visited nearly 1000 families; and had found no
trace Of any contagious disease: Beginning
sSf1 nspestors; viii Visit every
lodging house. in the city and make personal
q in%sss Any WIG
its symptoms will be Quarantined. and every
one who cannot convince the inspector that he
has been vaccinated recently will be vac
President Wilson Of the Health Board and
DR.: Edison have made arrangements with the
addresses Of ali applicants for lodging. They
hope by that means to trace any ledger who
pox back to the point where he came into con-
tact with the contaeion.
TS at found yes
There were number OF Russian passengers
On the steamship AlIer. which arrived at
from mortSern s provnces tho vessel was al.
Logged to come ~ up to her dS S,. .,or.u.,
steamer Massilia. died at 4o clook this morn
ing. There are no other cases among the i'm
coma
to make salesoften they would force their way
into farmhou against the protests Of the
women. who were generally alone. Once In
they opened their packs. took out their wares
ducements or threats. They were generally
successful. because women would buy to get
rid Of them. Two weeks after their visit scar
let fever and diphtheria broke out in many OF
the. families, where they had opened their
packs. and 1t Is spreading. Two deaths from
there are many more cases where death is
looked for. In no family where the peddlers
failed TO got into the house has either disease
appeared. It is the general opinion Of tho
who are attending the sick that the
sseVs and esme from their hIthy packs "e me-
PATRIOTIC HEBREW STRIKERS.