The evening world., 1893-10-18
With LANCET IN The B0WERY.
Tho fascinating Corps at Work
in the Lodging-H Houses
Seven Hundred Out OF Two Thou
sand lnoculated.

The poor Bowery lodging-house habitue
was a much prosecuted person last night:
At least SO he asserts to-day. DR.. Alvah
H. Doty. Chief Inspector of the Bureau
OF Contagious Diseases. with his little
army Of v~accinators. equipped with
virus and lancet. swooped down on the
Dowery lodging-houses last night, and
after attacking about two thousand
dodgers succeeded in inoculating seven
hundred.
DR.. Doty saiu this morning that the
amount of ex%postulating 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 hun
drej came under the lancet, owing to
the many impromptu lectures.
Even the number iast-named woul
have been much smaller had not
strategy been employed. The time Sc
lected was ~ I. NJ. to midnight. The
object was obvious.
At IL. the custom in lodging-houses for
they retire in theii 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 v~accinators
divided into eight squads and accom-
panied by a sanitary policeman began
the raid.
TIL first house visited by DR.. Doty
and his squad was 10 Pell street. Here
dodgers swing in a hammock and pay
40. cents for the privilege. There are
800 dodgers in the house, and a most
disagreeable lot they were.
The first subject proved to be one OF
the worst to deal with. He was a small,
broad-shouldered 'longshoreman. He was
asleep.
Wake up, my man. said a vaccin-
reused up and glared 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
70 the front speedily none the worse for
his temporary defeat.
The subject by this time was thor.
again. but the subject became more OBJ
which. he %relegated all physicians who
disturbed honest workingmen to a eli
mate more torrid thar the atmosphere
n Aus q ho n;sbyt. clearinghouse on a sultry
Finally; armed with a big cowhide
the subject came off victorious. This
was a bad example set for others, and
work progressed slowly in that house.
But there were sensible fellows in the
place. after all. and about seventy sub
JtCIb were NdCClrldtbl.
One peculiar case was that of a strap
ping fellow who did not awake from sleep
during the time ne was being ,noculated.
He was lanced and the virus applied be-
fore he became conscious of the situa-
ton. Then he turned over and wanted
to know what all the fuss was about.
you've been vaccinated," said the
doctor.
Get out!' he growled; "youse fellers
ull ave a time dosin' me, Sect
With that he rolled himself in his
blanket and went to sleep in ignorance
Of his acquisition.
The experience with r%esenters, plead
ing with oratory. adduced in defense OF
characterization, using force in some
cases. where it was thought wise to do
was a fair sample Of what the v%accinat.
lodstng-houses visited. These Included
10. u, IS Pell street, 3, II. -, %. SO, 60,
e. 10. 70, 80. 1Os 1-2, 112. 265 Bowery. and
4 Rivington street. The same work will
be continued tonight.
The emploecs of Simpson. Crawford &
Simpsons Sixth ven d~ry-goods store,
will I've vaccinated tonight. The doctors
wiz he on hand between 7 and 8 o'clock.
The employees Of the Broadway Rail-
road are being vaccinated to-day at the
power house, Fifty-first street and
broadway, and the employees of the
Ninth avenue surface railroad at Fifty
employees of the St. James Hotel will
also be v~accinated to-day.
The health physicians will begin opera
tions at 10 A. NJ. tomorrow on the en-
ployees OF the Third avenue line, at
SiXty-thlrd street and Third avenue.