New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-08
THE DANGER DECREASING.
FEW NEW CASES or TYPHUS FOUND.
, PATIENT CAUSES FRIGHT At TIE CHAIR
TIES DEPARTMENT BUILDING.

TIES DEPARTMENT BUILDING.
A few new eases OF typhus fever were found In the
city Yesterday but the sanitary officials thought the
danger OF serious spread Of the disease was decreaS
ing one tvphus patient went TO the once Oh Tie
Department OF Charities and Correction, at rhlrd-ave
and Eleventh.st In the forenoon and caused fright
there He was directed 10 the once OF the licath
Board and when lie appeared at TIC Motts'' uoor
Of Police Headquarters be was sinking Win laus"e
and weakness A reporter. TO whom th" man showed
"A card with "typhus" written on II. led me man 10
tho Bureau Of Cont gious Diseases at NO. JOB Mu
berry.st. Dr. Roberts looked at the man ana 'o'u
him 10 20 into a room In the basement Of the build
Ing Tho man turned In the direction Indicated ana
fell mart way down the stairs. brusirg himself
slightly An examination showed that he was III
with the fever and no was taken IN an hmbn'hhce
10 the Reception Hospital In East Slxi"cnth'st'
Thence he was taken With other typhus patients 10
North Brother Island In the afternoon lie Shld lie
was william IIcsketh. and had slept In ~" senate
lodnnr-honse IN Chatham Square on Friday might
Formerly he hud becn Ia the lodging houses at NOS
os and 100 Bowery. lie lately came to tlhs CITY
from BOSTON soon after hesketh Lad been sent
away from tho purcau Of Contagious Diseases Ihonhs
Murphy Of No. zoo Second ave, was directed uiere
for examination. H0 had been IN mo Bufehu oi
vital statistics. aud sd told Dr. Nagc That be felt
sick and was afraid that he had the FEVER M
examination. however. failed 10 disclose any VP'"@
symptoms, and he WAS sent homo
.ruo Of the dodgers In the qunrlniincd house. No.
"a Bayard ST. were found 60 BE- I'll with yphus fewer
and were sent away about noon They were Johh
Miller and Thomas Burns. Charles Kelly, VINO WAS
A lodpcr az No. "a DayartiSt. before the place WAS
ouorantiped ,vnllcd to Bellevue Hospital, ana vas
found 10 he suffering with the fever lie had been
Shaving lately In n Bowory lodging honse which Is
under the supervision OF medical sanitary Inspectors
Tbomos Will who was sent away from No. - bayaT'
=, IN Monday died on North Brother Island on
Friday night
Mary Greenberr the wife OF baker living on
The second floor OF the tenoment-house NO 90 for
syth.st was removed 20 the Reception IO-!lAl last
evening. suffering with typhds foyer. Her Illness
caused excitement In the tenement house. which shell
tiers thirteen families IT was not known Low sirs.
Greenberg contracted the fever. She sald shs had
heen nj home constantly Of lats and 10 one from
an infected house had visited her. Her husband
works IN the bakery next door TO Liz home
Three men who were suspected 10 have V'
plus fever were kept In tent On the
Bellevue Hospital grounds last night fTith
eniberr n baker who lodged nj No. 20 Chrysue ST..
walked 10 tho hospital late In the afternoon and was
placed in the tent, when the doctors noticed that he
had tvrhus symptoms. lie followed later By
Jacob Dellani on Italian labOrcr OF no % sullivan
:, whos also showed signs OF the fever. In tho
evening 4 policeman OF tho EdrIdeo-st squad took
Louis Bender 10 the hospital In an ambulance Zen
der bad been a LOGGER az NO. III Bo"cTy uh uiso III
No Mulberry.st. llc was arrested OIL charge OF
burgarv at D. m having stolen "A satchcl containing
clothing valued at $40 from the room OF August Meyer
ot No. 600 BIoome-st. After he had been locked
mn in a cell several hours he became H. and an ambu
lance was called from the Gouvorneur Hospital The
Ambulance surgeon thought that Bender had typhns
fever and took him 70 Bellevue, whero he was placed
in tlc tent with the other suspected people
There was an accidental fire in tho Health boards
dsinectnz station In East SXteenthst. yesterday az
ternoon sparks from the furnace set nre to some
b,alny which had been taken To the station TO be dis
infected and tho bedding destroyed. The damage
was slight.
Mrs John a. Foster, OF no AL Parlavc.. drove TO
the Office OF the Health Board yesterday afternoon and
asked that an Investigation be made TO determine the
character OF the illness Of Maggie Welsh, a servant,
who vas taken to Bellevue Hospital THURSDAY.
Maggie was employed In the house Of Mr.. Fosters
daughter Mrs. T. COnlts al No. 20 East seventy
eglth-st She became III with fever on Thursday
and Mrs Coulls took her 10 the hospital In carnse
Mrs Foster said she anXiOu, abOnt her daughter
Thinking that the servant might hive had typ,ls
fever At the hospital last evening 1t was said that
Maggie Welsh WIS not known TO have typhus fever or
any other contagious disease.
AT noon Yesterday DR.. Roberts announced that
there had been nincty-twO cases OF yphui lever
and fifteen deaths from the disease during tile week,
In contrast with twelve and no deaths In tho
ur.yIons week. lie also gave the following record
OF cont aglons diseases IN the city during two weeks
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