The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-21
WITH LANCET AND QUILL
HEALTH INSPECTORS sCOUR THE
FOURTH WARD FOR SMALLPOX.

Two Hundred Persons vacciuated-Tweive
Cases Found Testerday-Two Fhysioi.ns
C.urht the Disease from Patient who
Wa. Supposed TO Have Chioken-Pox.
Nina well. dressed young men and five big
roliosm en- in uniform boarded Third avenue
.Ievated train at Houston street shortly after
O o'clock last night and alighted at the Frank
lin SQUARE station. Each young man had a
case OF lancets and lot Of vaccine quilts in
his pocket The group separated In pairs and
started through the crowded tenements OF
Cb,rry, Oak. and Roosevelt streets. The
policem ems companions were health inspec-
tors. with Chief Alvah II. Doty in command
and they were charged with the duty Of head
ing of tho possibility OF any further spread OF
smallpox. The inspectors had no right to
compel any one to submit to the lancet and
IN oculating Quill. and they took the police
men for the effect OF their uniforms. The
nieht tour was undertaken because only at
night can tho health authorities get hold
readily OF those who are likely to spread con-
taeion through lack OF knowledge Of sanitary
precautions.
Only one case was discovered Mrs. Sarah
Ericsson was found i'll OF the disease at IS
Cherry street and was removed She had re-
fused several times to be vaccinated when in
spectors called at the house, where other cases
have developed.
There was a party in the house last night
and the inspectors corralled the guests and
yaccinated about forty. Many had come from
Brooklyn. and they bewai!ed their i'll luck. At
tho Oak street police station twenty-five
women prisoners received incubation. In all.
200 persons in Oak. Cherry. and Roosevelt
streets were vaccinated.
One cause Of the tour last night was the dis
eoyury OF eleven cases Of smallpox in the
city the largest number yet recorded in any
one day. Two physicians were among the
victims. and both caught the disease through
blunder The physicians were DR.. Thomas
j. Richards. aged 20. OF 800 West Eleventh
street who is a member OF the Nander-
bilt Clinic OF Roosevelt Hospital and DR..
Charles Norris. who is % years old. and is con-
nected with the hospital service. The blum
der consisted In introducing to the young
doctors assembled at n clinic man
suffering from smallpox in an agra
vated form as IN interesting example Of
chicken poS There were score or more Of
young physicians Assem- bed as the instructor
commented on the supposed chick On poX. and
they came in contact with the man who was in
a fever and whose face was blotched. The in
structor appears to have been entirely at sea |
as regards small pox symptoms Chief Doty |
was informed afterward that because of the |
lack of suspicion. on the instructors part. 10 |
proper Investigation was made as to the mans |
history and residence.
The patient was James McGowan. driver.
who lived at 42p West Fifty-second street. |
previously been removed from this tenement
Some doctor happened along " lille the clinic
With and there WAS
motion when he ordered his instant removal
to the hospitaL This This, was IS on Sept; and the
he was Treated and recovered.
Drs. Richards and Norris were particularly
chicken, po1.. About week ago they were
were sent 10 North Brother Island with small
leland MI,s Everybody who was anywhere near
he was convinced that the DANCER Of the
spread Of TIE h disease IN either institution was
Ing MEG owans all nent was one apt to happen
among doctors unfamiliar with the close study
tried to discover who the instructor was. he
said. because the mistake was an honest one.
tors wore sent to the, small pox hospital Mary
from &sst FL yH@s HI st rsoSea 'h'h'r
ting out on his night tour. There ~ viii III be ga
two, duo to the development Of disease now now In In
It's inGipiency. Then the, .contagion viii die
nut We trace the wh9le disease This
Caueesians to the number Of so or 100 are
% and removed to North Brother Il Island nd
rom b ana children ksDt going to and fr9
ne seeds Of contagion, with them. on July
q Chinaman who kept a laundry at ii
snd died q Ier that Mrs. FIR Robnson wse
a avS "a az VI Canal street. around the corner.
Dretor was III, deyeloped the diseases e Her Her
piTG,stration followed close upon the discovery
OF tTo cases at / Pell street
y iso Madison street. These were traced to
ssl. iTqm the laundry The children
me impression that they had measles. They
we're YER hye Of the worst cases the bureau has
h A. to deal With IN this city Then followed
'esstlgation proved that McGowan had driven
Deer wagon and delivered beer to the Chit
body in the Fifty second street tenement was
,sccinated except Mrs. Church. the house,
w She hid hs5ss Msnt the n
. |, 1891 street. where. she was employed
Fb isnitrsss and there developed the disease
,n S Madison streets; The worst q the disease
a s Srsr though and there Is absolutely no &C.
We suppose that the disease was originally :
tt.yIGght 70 this city from jersey City By an ,
ALLAN, who visited the Pell street tenement"
t yohn Brown. aged 20; went to the Chambers
anSd over to the Health authorities as a {
m box patient. Other cases sent to the
ma a... DoI hospital yesterday were: Mary
!, Gyesr-old daughter. Sarah: Samuel Johnson.
\ years Of 80 Roosevelt street: Mary Ryan:
y Years. q 80 Oliver street: Joseph Golden.
ears OF IS Cherry street; Maggie O'Neil "a
' ss,s. OF 2,452 Second avenue. and Michael I
ieaefen. n years, 80 Roosevelt street