New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-09
TYPHUS FEVER DECREASING.
THREE NEW CASES AND SIX DEATHS REPORTED
YESTERDAY


Six deaths and three new cases was the typhhs
fever record Yesterday The deaths were those OF
David Welsh twenty six years old who had been found
al No "a Bayard st. on December 80; John larlcy'
Gftv.scvcn years old, from tic same pcst'house' on
December 81. Two days later Bayard'st' luiiishei
three more victims In Richard Derncy, James war;
and John Navin who were removed to the HVc'sl"c
Hospital on January q 3 and 4. These men All ulei
Yesterday Thomas Malone. the sixth man TO succump
was discovered Friday in his room at No. 2o' lifS
ave. The first reported yesterday was that OF
Edward Mann, twenty years old. WHO on wednesday
night walked into the St. Francis Hospital IN
Tifth-st.. and Complained Of being ILL., Mann hhd
lived ut hotel No. 3l2 Fultonst. lie had INC
headache the sore throat, the chs. the high TEN
tcrature and all the earlier symptoms oi tvphut
Yet the house physician coud only dgnose his case as
some kind 0: fever" and put him In ward win
four other patients. Mann had occupied the war"
with the other patients until saturday nlgh'- C"F
then did the doctor discover that Mnnn's body was
almost covered with the characteristic livd RASH ana
at last realizing that lie saw case Of yphus, he sent
a message to the Board Of Health. Dr. Dillingham;
was A. once sent TO the hospital and seeing Mann
directed his removal to North Brother Island The
patients with whom Mann had been associated are
now isolated willo the ward itself was fumlgated.
John Lanse printer. forty-onc years old. Of Frank
fort and William ets late on Saturday night stooh De-
fore the desk sergeant at the Madison t. station
trcnblinc and Shaking as II with dcathly cold. MY
head seems 10 be fire and the room seems swimming
ronndn he gasped, casplng his forehead with boh
bopae With supcnntendcnt Byrncss warning In his
mind the sergeant rang up an ambulance IRON
Gouverncr Hospita but the surgeon, who had already
b,ter n,cmones OF typhus which looked like acute
d,,,nL refused 10 entertain Lange, who at last was
,oLon awov in the Board Of Icaltls Black Maria"
Ionc. has since displayed the rash. and IS now In
p,yersidc Hospital. The last fully developed case
was Richard Cannon. thirty three years DID, from no
"a Bayard-st. ~ ,,..
Bellevue Hospital had two more voluntary Nisi'o,s
v.atorav Eugene Zeclcr, thrty-seven years 0iu'
staggered up to Policeman Gusiave Hlhc'u'S' VI "''
eleventh Precinct carly Saturday night and begged
that he might be taken out OF thc DUNE o1u ni,r i,'
brl,crcd I'm the police station fHnn III ~"
hm, and ,hcn In a minute freezing ccd." he fd,
can scarcely stand" IIinkeE had T. arr nln ~ ,,'r ,,'
typhus but his sense OF Lnmahy VIZ uoiIrr
TIs fear and he led Hcckci to me f.iarIIpe i'll ~,
station There the sergeant, iiol ~, ,s oddnr
c,ee wac one Of typhus, sent Zeckci 10 tlo IiI
room AZ the rear OF the stn0h. iHciV Nv 'rh.n
h~ddiad With tho other lOdgefs until YESTERDAY a.,
hn va taLen 10 Essex Market Police '"uit Witt w.,
iiosrtI tt Hcllcvuc Zccior said that hc ma u"sy'
ai 10 8 Mulberry st This was enough , Ior Dr, ~ .
Ill IT, yht ecnf lin 10 the tent In the charAc'er ~ "
suspect. .,,,,, xoore old a prIntcr, whO
nni,cvue Uospltal Just after IL O'CLOCK NestinS br
t,,' ,ncntioncd that he had tNpllus icVfr. ~,
sa, o,amned him and Thought his SYMPTOMS n",
% mp1 p oumd ,hat WahOncv had slept for thr"" nfl,
VIII III IL Eo Iyouse 40. $50 BOwcry. ana thc OAloiu
~ aIo mo No ig1 Park Row, he promptly lodscd nm "
q l.. tapt