New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-30
Die INCREASE IN TYPHCS.
rupTEEN NEW CASES DISCOVERED.
r,rvrE HOSPITAL NURSE STRICKEN DOWN
TWO VICTIMS IN THE NEw:BoYS
IODGING-HOUSE.


LoDGING-HoUsE.
r,,. was NJ increase in typhle fever cases
...orday. Between 10 a. m and midnight
..ti,teen new cases were reported to the Bureau
ur....cious Diseases No deaths from the fever
s..urrcd in the twenty-four hours that began
00 ", Midnight on Saturday. The Newsboys'
y.Srpg House. which shelters hundreds of poor
ss hitherto practically free from contasion,
....,.h.d two virulent cases in Peter Mulholland
urn u.rrv-Weiss These boys had, it seems
I.,. in the home at least five
MY ont Of seven, but it was not
% us,N Friday that Weiss fell ILL Then he. ig-
uH", of the real nature Of his malady, went
r,.mbers Street Hospital. but only yesterday
%, ,he Characteristic rash display itself. Then
." "a. hurried TO the Riverside Hospital. The
~, had been fumgatcd and the boys all en-
.u;n.a and cleansed. but too late, for last night
,r-,holland. who had been ailng. showed signs
:, .;ckness. and after hurried examination
'. " Chambers Street Hospital was taken to the
Reception Hospital.
rha bic tcnemcnt-housc. No. 463 West Thirty
.na., sbeltering twenty families. has joined
-. ,,fscted list Thomas WestwOod was taken
I'm ~, there last night, displaying all the symp-
i - tvnbns No. 46 Mulberry-st.. an Italian
.u,u,,- house shared the same fate. Fran
'.... pasonade being the victim. To its long
~. po,,cyue Hospital last night furnished a
49,. Uoman NJ. Alarc, a faithful and devoted
rurse was taken down.
Iobr Rohnrtv had been wandering around the
poxerv partly drunk and partly Ill. ana had
,.n, q. the Great Northern Hotel, OIve Tree
,nn T.r tho Washington Lodging House, in Fourth
:, Five days ago lie was sent TO the "orN-
house and was at once put In the ihnr"a'S'
y..,.rdav he developed the characteristic syhp-
..rs ~ the disease and was taken TO the llVerSiuo
un.c;tal George X. Graham, sixteen years o.o'
g.. hsen ailing since January 90. Formerly he
,,ad q, No l73 Mott-st, and II is believed tha'
~. assooations with William kearney, taken
:. ,ba Riverside Hospital three days ago, en-
..ssd him 10 infection. Henry Welner has oeeh
an inmate of the workhouse sirce December .
IA has probably contracted the oisc'S' ''o''
E,.bam or Boherty. Robert Spencer, au o'u
nav WAS sent 70 the Island on Friday ana
since then has been confined to his Ded' lie
rss the fourth man to develop the disease YES
t.raav and was also sent to the hiNeisioe
Hospital. :, .rdor,v
W;l,;.m Long. forty-Gve years old. an orderly
~ the Reception Hospital, was strlcNeh uo"
carly Yesterday morning. Devotion TO the he'p-
,ass creatures put under his care tells MS s'"'s
A s.cond caae reported from No. ll2 Bowery, was
that Of Joseph Kreis. forty-two years oIo' WIN
49,. t.,ra in the infected honse in the forenoon
and hurried 10 North Brother Island wilma"
F1vnn thirtyseven years old. one of the iodsers
who had slept in the Eighteenth Precinct poncc
s.,,on m January u, and had been sent 10
bellevue Hospital as suspect, was yesterday 'akci
from the tent and, raving with typhus' TAKEN
10 the island Early last night Thomas McCarthy'
thirty-fve years old, suspect, was taken 10
the Reception Hospital William Johnson o.
No. ESQ Bowery. is the last addition TO the hs'
Of suspects
Warden ORourke, OF Bellevue Hospital adop.ed
a drastic measure of precaution. Thirteen OF 'he
hospital wards from which typhus patients have ,H
AT different times been removed are now u,iuta a.
strict quarantine-or, in other WORDS cloS,u ~
visitors who however could visit the WARDS
nor set apart. Every Sunday it had been the
cns,oni for the members of the Salvation Army,
the Y NJ C.. a. and other organizations 10 Nisi.
the hoeptal and hold short services OF sony III
certain of the wards Here Warden O,KourKe
saw considerable danger Of infection. Inc IN
fscted and uninfectcd wards frequently adIoil
each other While the orderly IN charge OF a
onarantincd ward would readily stop the frleno
~ relative of patient. he would scarcely nave
snfscient excuse TO stop the singers, who woniu
thus 20 from ono ward to another WITHOUT VI "
turbapce Warden ORourke accordlnGly uecIuat
70 keep tho singing societies OUTSIDE the i"", ~ W
Bellevue Yesterday they marched uD 10 tte nun IN
her NJ 30 but Decentralization Ricard STOOD az me
entrance and told them that they couiu no' ~
admitted