New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-02
TypHUS FEVER INCREASING.
ru,RTy. ONE NEW CASES FOUND YESTER-
DAY.
ruryry.oNE WERE AT THE BAYARD-ST. HOUSE
WHERE THREE CASES DEVELOPED on
ruDAY-lrEALTH OFFICIALS
ANXIOUS.


The news published by the Health Board this
warming will he likely to cause the gravest
aIarm in all sections of the city The typhus
t.v.r epidemic took big bound yesterday. ard
asreloped no less than thirty-one fresh cases
Twenty-eight of these were discovered yester
a.v The remaining three were found last night.
The typhus fever patients in this city now num-
h., fcr.y-threc, and it is likely that ,o-day's
,turns will furnish another big instalmcnt Of
nses OF the cases made known Yesterday
.venty.one came from No "a Bsyard-st.. where on
rx,a.r three sufferers were found Their naIIcs
ava Sebastian Hubert, forty-six years old; Jo-
sonb Coleman seventeen: George Brown. twenty
.,r.. Michael Farron, thirty-three Edward Nc
VA. twenty-three: Cornelius Walsh. Afty-saven; ;
ranrv Rogers. fortv-seven Joseph France. forty
tvo: James Kelleman, thirty eight; William
Griffin thirty-Sevrn Henry GRAY, 'orty-'wo :
John Flanagan, twenty -nine; Moses Roscnzwcis.
nineteen; Edward Fitzpatrick, thirty-nire; Louis
Geimin, ffty-seven: Frank Flynn. twenty-five ;
Joscnh G.lham forty-eight. and John Selaky,
etv..hree The names of the three men taken
oxav last night could rot be ascertAincd.
ren-v Williams and Henry Meiele wcre taken
Avn chambers Street Hospital, John Brown,
.h,rtv-nipe wears old was taken from Il lodging
hnuse at No. 100 Park Row Henry Scfrce. fifty
yo.rs old. and Charles Van Buren, were found AT
~. Colored Home. at First-ave and East Six'y-
a,,hs. while John Lynch. hfty-fIe years Old
uos =. No. l9i Park Row. Seven OF the Ray;rd-
=. ,.ticnt. had been temporarily lodged In Belle
,,,o Hosptal. two In Gonverncur Hospital ana
ON. IN the Charity Hospital, awaiting the de-
,.,o,ment Of the dipase Then as the symptoms
aaol.,ad themselves they were teken to the River
side Hospital A.
The lodging-house frequentcrs on OF IN inc
nciehbcrhood Of the Bowery arc IN something aP-
r,osohinc q panic No one knows just when OF
where tho lightning will strike next AZ any
moment one or dozen or twenty OF the oarraca-
Nh. worrcn. in the Bowery may be Infected with
the plague.
DR. Roberts and the PHYSICIANS OF the on
tactou. Diseases Bureau are practlcany helPi ID
in the face of tlis problem; 'he no'hh"ic n""''s
o, tie Dowery tramp and III" nnccr'H,n'N o
lie movements are at once the worst difficulties
in their way and the worst danger 10 'ne p"oI'
An ,bev can do is 70 keep watch on every
place where typhus fever is suspected 70 w. "'
90. thev have put none OF the houses under
',r., Quarantine All that Dr. Roberts has so
g., dome is 70 station a" inspector at each house
end o-aer that the temperature of men and
women entering the infected buildings shall DC
carefully tested. This was done yesterday a'Vf
TIE discovery Of the Bayard-st. cases
I, was Just before 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing when the fresh cascs in the Bayerd-s~ iQos-
ns-Seuse developed themselves Within an iour
trom the discovery OF the disease wagon was at
tbe door. and the sick men in the house were
lifted into IL and driven away In the meantime
their fellow-lodgers from Bellevue, ChanocTs-s''
and Goaverueur Slip were on the way TO the
Riverside Hospital.
Every one In and around the Bayard-st. house
is crazy with fear. When the discovery OF the
new cases was made known yesterday there arose
q perfect babel of cries and curses and prayers
in almost every known tongue. In the farK
Row houses there was perceptible excitement
but all through the building there was IN EVIL
dent dread of what yet to come.
ALI through yesterday corps Of reporters
hnnt.d the city in search Of DIR. Roberts. Prcsi
dent Wilson, DR.. Edson and other officials in the
hone OF obtaining u definite s'a emont OF w
situation None Of those oihoi"is' however, co'''
ho found