The evening world., 1893-12-09
QUARANTINE NEEDED.
Greenwich Village Fears an Epi-
demic of SMALLPOX.
Four Cases Reported So Far at "a
and rs Eighth Avenue.
Yet the Cameron and Helm Stores
Are Open for Business.

Village which is bounded by jackson
Square, Eighth avenue and Fourteenth
street the greatest CONSERVATION exists
among the residents who fear. and justi-
fiably SO, as the Investigation by an
Evening World reporter shows, an
epidemic OF smallpox.
They claim that the neighborhood Is
in danger Of an outbreak of the dreaded
,contagion, and aver that the health
authorities are not as energetic in their
duties to prevent it's spread as they
should be. where so many people are
menaced.
Already four cases OF smallpox have
been reported to the Board OF Health.
three Of which emanated from one house,
u Eighth avenue, and the other ana
latest one from 76 Eighth avenue.
The first to be stricken down with the
disease was Joachim Helm, who lives at
store on the ground floor. Helm occu-
pies the apartments, above his store:
The house is small thr three tT P Hacs
are tcnanted by the Webb and Weinhof
i" Nov. q Joachim Helm was reported
spatched one Of Dr. Doty's assistents IN
the Bureau of Contagious Diseases He
diagnosed the ,ase as one Of ad Smail.p9,4 x
NORTH Brother Ixiand. The house was
fumisated, the. beddtng. destroyed Ifsnd
spsctors Of the Bureau of Contagious
Diseases under such circumstances were
enjoyed.
Helm remained in the hospital ax,S until
cured, and that day he returned to his
home and his cgar-store and conducted
the business of making and selling e.
hn n
did of yore.
Meantime let 1t not be understood
that Helms cigar-store remained closed
North Brother Island. His wife and
older children continued to peddle out
cigars Gig se al fae Men w shS Rs amS
are Immensely industrious. Two of his
children, boys of twelve and ten years
Of age respectively, T,'f ie th Sa famfy
income by selling papers. The simple fact
that their father had been stricken with
smallpox and had been taken IA, away y
the extent that they RETAINED from
minglng with the public. selling their
papers here, there and everywhere IN
~" It was that fac. alone tn, that first trs,
boring shop keepers and business men.
they ali confessed to a certain degree
OF fear. This was increased when Mon,
day, the very day that HEN returneu
Oracle Wenhof. seventeen months ola.
who lived on the top moor Of "a Eighth
avenue with her parents Tell V'e'''"
The infant was removed at once 70
North Brother Island, and the sight OF
the dreaded smallpox ambulance Drawn
caused widespread alarm In the neigh
borhood. DIR. Doty's corps or vncclna-
tors Visited the residents In the vicinity,
mated But Helms cigar store continued
to remain wide open. and his boys CON
unued to peddle papers on the streets
Thursday came the climax; The
smallpox ambulance. with its funereal
trappings OF black, backed up against
the IN front or 4
with another victim on his way 10 Nortn
Brother Island: That one was fT TANK
eIsh; who lived on The n sefSna h1 ree
fused to be vaccinated when the doe
tors made their rounds ten days before,
and he fell an easy victim to the con-
business men were now thoroughly
aroused. Their customers were equally
alarmed, and business was appreciao'S
On top Of all this came the announce
ment Yesterday that Mrs. Cameron,
wife of Alexander Cameron, plumber,
doing business at rs Eight avenue. and
living overhead In a house similar 10
Helms. lay stricken with the plague in
her own rooms.
All day yesterday Plumber Cameron,
as in Helms case, kept his shop open
and transacted business just as tran
gully as II a case OF smallpox was the
least dangerous thing In the world.
Men and women entered and left his
place all unconscious OF his SICK wire
above; letter-carriers delivered the mails
and then went out into the streets and
mingled with the populacs at large ana
left letters at other houses. Newsdealers
with bundles OF papers under their arms.
trotted into Camerons and deposited his
iayorite Journal and then passed On to
Mrs Comeron Is still lying In her
own apartments, and DIR. Doty, OF the
bureau OF Contagious Diseases. says his
assistants are seeing to Il that her treat,
requirements Of the Health Board, But
that doesn't satisfy the good burShers
OF quaint old Greenwich Village. who
may be "A hit old-fashloned. and for AL
mat feel that the health Of the general
public demands far more stringency
mas yet shown,
The property holders and residents are
CRYING aloud that an effective Nunrnr'
inc NE nj once instituted ut the Cameron
urge that both the plumbers and the
tGIshr dealers shops he closed, and all
intercourse and communication with the
inmates prohibited until such time a. It
Inn,l NO declS'vely ascnrtnined that there
no longer any possible danger Of
ease
nNapter % NJ the laws Of 1882 EN-,
lowers the BOARD ~ Health 10 quarantine
a. nouss afflicted as these houses, are
seard, and Or, Deity both declared thai