New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-18
MISS L. TOWNSEND I'LL WITH TYPNTS.
SHE is WE'LL KNOWN IN PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL
CHURCH CIRCLES.

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Miss Lettla Townsend, n woman well known in
Protestant Episcopal Chdrch circles removed
from ST. Luke's Hospital North Brother Island
Yesterday, suffering from typhus fever. She i
forty-nlne years old. Her home formerly was IN
Glen Cove. Miss Townsend Is the general secretary
OF the Girls Friendly Society Of tie Protestant
Episcopal Church in America. The society Is pat
termed after the English society OF the same name
and there branch organization OF girls in nearly
every church OF the denomination In this country
Her duties secretary placed her In communication
with all Of the churches and her correspondence was
arduouS.
In December Miss Townsends mother died In
Glen Cove, after n long illhess The task OF nurs
ing the patien. had wasted Miss Townsends strength
and she was advised to take rest by the advlcr
Of her brother who Is a Protestant Episcopal clersy-
man In Atlantic City, Miss Townsend came to New
York and occupied room In Saint Annals Home, al
No 425 West Twcntieth-st, occupied by the Society
for the Home Study of the Holy scriptures There
Miss Townsend continued her work as secretary Of
the Girls Friendly Society.
She went TO visit her father at Glen Cove
Easter Sunday, and it supposed that she caught
cold. After her return TO tie city she became Ill.
physician who called to attend her thought She
suffering from influenza. but She continued TO
have high fever and "Wednesday Of last week she
sent TO ST. Lukes Hospital There her Illness
was diagnosed as typhoid fever, and she was placed
In separate where she could not expose other
patients In the lOspial TO possible conagi0n. The
physicians noticed symptoms Of typhus fever
Sunday and expert from the Bureau OF Con
tagious Diseases confirmed thdr suspicious yesterday
morning Miss Townsend was accordingly removed
to North Brother Island. The room which she had
occupied at the hospital ds.nfcctci and the
bedding and clothing destroyed. Similar pre-
cautions were taken at saint Annals Home in West
Twentcth-st.
1t was said yesterday that Miss Townsend prob
ably caught the fever from infected bedding at the
Home. She lad used the bedding which had been
left there by young German woman who had been
visiting lodging houses In the city a missionary.
The young woman did not have the fever. but she
may have carried the germs OF the disease with her
to the Home.
Miss Townsend not relative Of Tie Mrs.
Townsend who died In her home in Madlson-avc.
recently. Miss TOwnsends Illness said 10 be
serious yesterday, and she may not recover.
James White. a homeless Of middle age.
sept I'm the police station In West sixty-eghthst.
a recent night when typhus fever patient was in
the lodging room, ard he was placed with other
"suspetts" In a tent on the Bellevue Hospital
grounds. Yesterday he developed the fever and was
sent to North Brother Islani.
SUPPOSED CASE Of TYPHUs NEAR PITTsBURG.
pittsburg. April 17.-Annie Welsh, i'm
migrant girl. from County Galway, Ireland, died at
the home OF her aunt. Miss Welsh. No. Said-st.,
Allegheny, yesterday at noon of typhus fever She
had been in this country only week. DIR. Me
MILAN, who attended the GIRL says she had hi the
symptoms OF typhus fever. The strictest measures
at once put In force to check any spread OF the
disease. Superintendent Mclaughlin Of the Bureau
of Health, has had the house. which is tenement,
thoroughly dsnfeced and the bedding burned. Miss