The evening world., 1893-10-18
With LkNCETIN The BOWERY.
Tho Vaooinating Corus at Work
in the Lodging Houses.
Seven Hundred Out OF Two Thou.
sand Inoculatcd.

The poor Bowery lodging-house habitue
was a much prosecuted person last night:
at least so he asserts to-day. DR.. AVIAN
II. Doty, Chief Inspector Of the Bureau
Of Contagious Diseases. with his little
army Of vaccinators. equipped with
virus and lancet. swooped down on the
Bowery lodging-houses last night. and
after attacking about two thousand
dodgers succeeded in inoculating seven
hundred.
DR.. Doty saio this morning that the
amount of expostulating oratory deliv-
cred by the dodgers who objected to
vaccination. was prodigious. Where
nearly two thousand subjects Should
have been inoculated in the two hours
given to the task. only the seven hum
dred came under the lancet. owing to
the many impromptu lectures.
Even the number ,ast-named would
have been much smaller had not
strategy been employed. The time Sc
object was obvious.
II is the custom in lodging-houses for
the inmate to strip to the SKIN when
they retire in their hunks or hammocks.
At 10 o'clock most of the dodgers are in
bed and sleeping heavily. 1t was so
last night when the army, of vacc!nators
QlNlutu lllO SlSll SludbS anu dCCOll-
panied by a sanitary policeman began
the raid.
The frs, house visited by DR.. poty
and his squad was 10 Pell street. Here
dodgers swing in a hammock and pay
10 cents for the privilege. There are
go dodgers in the house. and a most
disagreeable lot they were.
the worst to deal with. He was a small.
broad-shouldered 'longshoreman. He was
asleep,
ator. shaking him by the bare arm. He
reused up and slared about. No ques-
tons were asked him, but the lancet was
applied to the left arm. He howled with
rage and swung his brawny arm out. A
slender incubator was tioored, but came
to the front speedily none the worse for
his temporary defeat.
The subject by this time was thor
oughly awake. The doctor tried it once
again. but the subject became more OBJ
stinate and began to make a speech, in
disturbed honest workingmen to a eli
mate more torrid than the atmosphere
In a Bowery ~lodging-house on a sultry
August night.
Finally, armed with a big cowhide
boot, and muttering II won't! / won't!'
the subject came off victorious. This
was a bad example set for others, ard
work progressed slowly in that house.
But there were sensible fellows in the
place. after all, and about seventy SUBJ
jeets were ~vaccinated.
ohS ptCuild! SdSt was tllEl Oh II strap
ping fellow who did not awake from sleep
during the tine ne AS being inoculatei.
He was lanced and the virus applied be-
fore he became conscious of the sltua-
ton. Then he turned over m wanted
to know what all the fuss was about.
you've been vaccinated," said the
doctor.
Get out!' he growled; ''youse fellers
ull have a time dosin' me, see!"
With that he rolled himself in his
blanket n went to sleep in ignorance
OF his acquisition.
The experience with resenters. plead
ing with oratory. adduced in defense of
characterization. using force in some
cases, where 1t vas thought wise to do
SO. as met with in 10 Pell street,
was n fair sample Of what the vaccinat-
Ting. corps had to deal with in all the
lodging houses visited. These included
10. u. IS Pell street, 9. II. l3, %, SO, 60,
y, g.. 20. 9S, los 10. liz, 265 Bowery. and
4 Rivington street. The same work will
be continued tonight.
The emrloees OF Simpson. Crawford &
will he vaccinated tonight. The doctors
W. 'A ~ and between I and 8 o'clock.
The employees of the Broadway Rail-
road are beng vaccinated to-day at the
power house, Fifty-first street and
broadway, and the employees of the
Ninth avenue surface railroad at Fifty
fourth street and Ninth avenue The
employees OF the St. James Hotel will
also be v~accinated to-day.
The health physicians will begin opera
tons at 10 A. NJ. tomorrow on the en-
ployees Of the Third avenue line, at
Sixty-third street and Third avenue.