New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-21
4 SCARLET FFTFR PATIENT ESCIP
MIS- MFINEI.L LETS HERSELF FROM WILLARD
PARKER HOSPITAL by \ ROPE.

PARKER HOSPITAL ny \ ROPE.
we shall bc obliged TO place iron bars the
windows 81 the Willard Parker Hospital said CYRUS
Edison. Health Commissioner. yesterday. In comment
Ing the escape Of patient from the hospital early
Thursday morning
Miss Marie Mcncl. twenty-five years old. was the
patient who cscared. She let herself OF, Of soond
story window with rope. IL was not necessary Tor
her TO be- In such hurry 10 leave The place.
the sanitary officials say. shc had nearly re-
covered from an attack ~ scarlet fever that she
TO be discharged Friday. Her Illness l~gnn n
little more than four weeks agO when size living
with her mother Mrs II G. M'lncl. In tho Preston,
a family hotel al 80. ijI West Forty trstst. Mis-,
McineIl's brother Henry and her sister Daisy also
lived there. but did not catch the fever. l'r
william stevens who lives IN The hotel. att ended Mis-
Mcncll and reported her case 10 ie Health loard.
II was thought lest 10 Miss Mcneil from
the hotel. in which number Of children lived with
their parents. Miss Mdncll afraid ~ being sent
TO North Brother Island but she assured that she
would be permitted 10 remain In the city. lIr
relatives TOOK her to The Willard Parker Hospital In
East siSteenhsi., where private room on The second
floor was assigned to her She had The best care that
a patient could have and She visited IN her room
BY relatives hut her fear OF being cent 10 the Island
did not abate. Her recovery from the fever was
rapid. and she had nearly passed the d"S'rnmatnc
stage when She made her escape from the hospital
The officials say she must have iccn assisted In
the escape and their arxie, TO find her has been in
creased by n suspicion that some cmpoye at the
hospital was IN collision with Der. She talked
privately With her relatives who visited her nj the
spital. and she permitted TO open letters which
were sent to her In fact every possible lib'riy was
afforded her, II is the policy of the officials 20
make the patients In tho hospital feel like guests and
not Ike prisoners. There OIL, other patient
In IN. scarlet fever ward ut the hospital when Miss
upb 4 suid NJ
nurse Whitman attended 10 both patients. The
nursr talked with Miss Mclncll about midnight previous
10 the escape. At that time the patient seemed to
De Dire wsy but comfortable She had ir'n Informed.
II was said that II the intention Of DR.. Nicholas
the physician In charge Of The hospital 10 order her
discharge on Friday
About = a. m. OIL Thursday DR.. Nicholas was called
and Informed that Miss Mcneil had escaped. The
nurse said she had been out OF Miss Mclnell's room
only few Minutes. attending to the other patient
In the ward and when She returned sh" that
the empty. new rope, which nobody In
the hospital had before. had been used by Miss
Mcneil In escaping. one end OF the rope had been
tied To her bed and the other end was on the ground
outside the building Miss Mcneil wore n wrapper
her nighdress when she escal ei. a search was
made the hospital after the escape dlscov-
crcd but she was not found. II evident that
she had fled with friend, and II thought
that a conveyance had been In waiting the hos
pital to take her away to place OF conccalmcnt.
Inquiry made nj the hotel In West Forty first 81
but the young not there. Her brother
and sister ut the hotel. They said that their
mother had gone 10 CASTLE. y. y, and did not know
Of their sisters escape from the hospital DIR. Bene-
dict, OF the Bureau OF Contagious Diseases, was at
the hotel on Friday and yesterday. but was not able
to get any trace Of the missing patient.
DIR. Edison said yesterday As the young woman
had nearly recovered from scarlet fever. and would
have been discharged by this time II she had not
escaped. she cannot be In danger. and she probably
| cannot spread the conaSion to other persons We
would like to have her take bath and have her cloth
Ing dislnfecled before she goes AT large and n ",
could find her might ask to have her punished
for the msdemeanOr which she committed In leaving
| the hospital before the usual precautions had beer
taken to free her person and clothing from the germs
OF scarlet fever. The time Of complete recovery IN
Of scarlet fever differs widely. Some patients
are through dcsquamating within three weeks after
being attacked with The fever while other patients
cannot De- allowed mnnc with well children for d
| period OF ten weeks. Scarlet fever seldom attack,
| grown people. and Miss Mcneil probably will not
be near any children. Her escape the first O
the kind since the willard Pnrkcr Hospital has bsri
occupied. At present there Ii proof that any en-
| plOye at the hospital assisted the young woman Il
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