New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-03
FEv NEU CISES or TYPHES ~ THE CITY
Or. SPRINGER MAKES a REPORT UPON THE

DR. spRHNGER MAKES A REPORT UPON THE
LODGING ROOMS ~ TIE POLICE STATIONS.
COMPARATIVELY few cases OF typhns fever were re-
ported In tho city yesterday. one case, however was
In a tenement house not previously known TO be III
iected. Mrs. Elem shepard. thirty fonr years DID,
was found sick with the fever In the house NO. :"
IudIow.st II could not be learned how she had
been exposed 20 contagion She was removed to
North Brother Island early in the afternoon. The
tenementhouse was dsiniected. ana the occupants
Of the house will DO watched By medical Inspector
for time.
Later in the, day. samuel sembers was found sick
ytl tho disease at No. GOA Eldridge-st About the
same time Alexander Alexander walked INTO The
Chambers Street Hospital. 0pa me doctors Their
soon saw that he had symptoms OF the fever. Both
uen were removed % ths island.
Thefo were four deaths yesterday among tue Nphus
patients on tho Island. 1Isnry Wener, one OF the
Victims was slxtythree years Old Iie was removed
from the Workhose on January 30. Walter John on
eight years old was sent to the island from the
n.re, nolIc. statlon John IamOn, twenty eight
years DID, had been inmate Of lodging house 10 the
Dowerv Francisco PasQus was the Italian barber
who was sent from the tenement house No ~ Null
berry-st a few days ago.
Sanitary Inspector Sprcnger, who has made an ex
animation OF all the lodging rooms In police STATIONS
below Fourteenth-st. made report yesterday ana
took occasion to describe some Of the conditions aS
their surroundings In most cases were such rs 10 IN
dc,e fine desIrnby OF an inspection OF ia" buildings
throughout In the Libcrtvst. station there are '"o
he'll traps in the floor OF the passage adjoining 'h'
LODGING rooms which We're found Directive one o'
,hem was entirely disconnected from the sewer pre-
leaving a folrinch end open for the escape OF sewer
mir In fine Oal-st station the lodging rooms are on
fine second floor OF the rear buildng. h" lower part
being used rs n prison. In the collar Of THIS building
* a pool OF stagnant water. receiving tn" diainag"
Of the building In the Nrlb"rry Il, station TIER" are
tvo omen water tanks In the lodging rooms. tn water
NJ which f. used for all purposes In the bll!dlhe.
namely supplying water for drinking ana hn'hlhs
,urnosrs There are three defective bell traps In
Ihc floor directly under The boards on which the
,a,,r. s,cp allowing foul air to escape. In the
ridridc.., and Leonard st. stations the main soil
mines il, the lodging are not ventilated above
the roof.
Th.sc defects mentioned found TO be amons
tho more Important mentioned. Tie walls ana cell
,nc ., ,be lodging rooms need frequent clean
ing and withdrawing. The Madson-St station was
fouud 10 be In an exceptionally clean condition. show
,uc evidence Of good houskecping The defects men
toned need immediate attention.
The report gives the measurements oi cach lodging
room and tells how many dodgers may be allowed
to sleep I'm each. In the Lb"rtyst station there Is
s,occ for eleven men and twelve women dodgers.
| The mems lodging room has been ovcrcrowded on
id NIGHTS A the Oak-st. station whore the lodging
roo,,s sboud shelter twenty three men and equal
number of women as many rs forty-'ight have been
| crowded into one room. The lodging rooms IN the
Leonard st. station are large enough for thirteen mon
| and thirteen women, but about twenty men have
been sheltered there cold nights. In the small
lodging rooms In the station in Elkabchst. ten men
and ten women may he allowed to sleep. The num-
Der OF dodgers allowed at other stations Is given as
foIlows. Madison st. station, fourteen men and fonr-
teen women: Mulberry ST. station, eleven men and
eleven women; Eldrldge ST. station, eleven men and
eleven women: Fiith-st. station, five men and five
women Mcrcerst. station. thirteen men and thirteen
women. T., 49,
roce stations above Fourteenthst and make another
/ rcDort