New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-27
SCARLET FEVER on THE ST MART'S.
TWO BOYS AND a SAILOR ILL WITH THE DIS
EASE on THE SCHOOLSH.p

TWO BOYS AND SAILOR ILL WITH THE DIS.
EASE on THE Scholastic
The appearance OF scarlet fever the schooship
81 Mary's, which Is anchored In the Fast River op
posite Twenty-cightlst.. has caused the sanitary
authorities 10 send most Of the boys away rom the
vessel Dr.. Wiling the ships surgeon sent word
to the Bureau OF Contagious Diseases Tuesday that
one OF the boys the ship i'll with the disease.
and on Wednesday he found that another boy and
a sailor suffering from the same maady. Chief
Inspector Roberts paid visit to the vessel and made
a careful Investigation. John Murphy and Frank
Porter each seventeen years old. and i. Jansen, the
sick sailor sent to North brother Island There
forty boys the ship who showed signs d
fever, and Dr. Roberts thought 1t would be well TO
send them TO their homes but ten Of them either had
no homes, had lived in places where their surround
inSs would be worse than on the vessel Accordingly he
gave orders send thirty boys To- their homes and
let the other ten remain board the ship Later the
vessel was fumiGatcd and washed with strong DIS
inectants Dr. Whiting reported yesterday that no
more cases OF the fever had appeared on the ship.
All of the boys who had been sent to their homes
were said to he well. The boys Will be watched
for time and will be sent back to the schoolship
when the danger is over.
Dr.. Roberts, in speaking OF the fever cases said
yesterday; at was the right way 10 send the boys
to their homes They will be less likely to take the
fever there than If they kept together on the
vessel. They Will be watched and II any OF them
become III they will be cared for promptly Probably
the fever was carried 10 the school'lip by one o.
the boys who had been permitted to visit his friends
in a tenement house In the city. We have many
cases OF scarlet fever In the city In NcwYork every
winter Last week there 14l reported cases
and seventeen deaths from the disease
Five persons who suffering from typhus fever
were removed from the city North Brother Island
Yesterday william Judd, n newsboy, seventeen years
old was the Youngest patient. lie was found SICK
in the lodging house for newsb0ys at sec ND ave- ana
Tourty .fourhst. which is under the control OF the
Children's Aid Society. and is attached TO one OF The
society's schools. The lodging house was dislnfccted
carefully and the school was closed. DR.. Roberts
also detailed a medical Inspector 10 make regular
visits TO the place and examine the boys In The lds
inc.house Myron Horton. II vagrant. twenty-five
years old walked 10 bellevue Hospital. Where The
doctors saw he had typhus symptoms. lie could not
toll in what gng houses he had been staying lately
Thomas Gordon, thlrty-cight years Old. and William
Davis ,hirty-nlnc found sick with fever in the
cheap lodging house at No 10 P"lst The house has
been under careful watch by medical inspectors OF The
Bureau OF Contagious Diseases for several weeks IL
was fumigatcd from top bottom last evening. and
NIL the inmates inspected. Gustave Nold. a
lOdger at No. Washington ST., was sent 10 BeIlcNW
Hospital lat" I'm the afternoon ana was lound 10 De
sick with iyphus fever 1t was not known how Ia"
contracted th' disease. =, 49,
found sick with smallpox In his home Mt No III
West Thiri.St yesterday. ana was sent 70 No'th
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