New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-21
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FROM TIE SANE
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There WAS additional evidence OF the spfeal
4 smallpox in the city yesterday, when cie'c"
ro,sons vino were suffering from the disease "eic
.nnt 10 the hospital on North Brother lslah"
Two of the patients were physicians. VINO hao
couoht the disease in the Vanderbilt Clinic IN
West Fiity-nInth-st. On September Jah'9
Na;owan laborer who lived in the tche
mcnt-housc No. 420 West filty-second-st., was
attacked with smallpox and went to the as
pcnsarv attached to the Vanderbilt Cilnlc ioi
treatment lie did not know what was the
matter with him At the dispcnsary hc came
under the notice Of a lecturer in the lns'i.u-
ton. who is said to be considered an authority
an skin diseases The professor said that Me-
Gowan had chic1cn-pox, and he took h'm INTO
the clinic in the presence of number OF young
physicians to use him as object lesson
THE PROFESSORS MISTAKE.
Several of the physicians stood near McGowan
while the professor was explaining now 70 rec
ognizc a case of chicken-poX, aud few oil them
touchod the sick man. Among them We're Dr.
Thomas L. Richards, aged twcnty-nine, OF NO.
200 West Flcventh.st., and Or. Charles Norris,
Twenty-Five years old. Of the Roosevelt Hospital
staa From the clinic McGowan was sent
back 10 his home, where he WAS found later
nv an inspector of the Bureau OF Contagious
Diseases and was sent 70 the hospital on Nor1h
Brother Island number of persons In the
tcncmcat-housc, who had come in contact with
NcGowan. were attacked with smallpox, ana
there was no doubt regarding the nature OF
his disease.
MCGOWAN RETURNED TO HIS HOME.
The fact that McGowan had been exhibited in
the Vanderbilt Clinic as sufferer from chicken
pox was not brought TO the attention Of the IN
spectors of the Bureau of Contagious Diseases
however, until yesterday, when Drs. Richards ana
Norris were found i'll with smallpox. and were re-
moved to the island hospital. Even then Chiet
Inspector Doty was not able to learn the name
Of the professor who had made such slarlng
mistake in the diagnosis of Mc''owanS aiment'
lie sent Inspector 10 make an investigation ana
TO hunt up other physicians who were AT the clinic
when McCowan was there. report by the III
spcctor probably will bc submitted to-day, and II
may be interesting reading for the professor who
lectures on skin diseases IN the clinic.
The other smallpox patients who were sent TO
the island hospital yesterday were Margaret
O'Ncil, aged twenty -four. of NO. 2,i52 Sccondave
Michael llcilcrcn, aged twcnty-thrcc, Of No. -
Rooscvclt-st; Samuel Johnson, aged fifty, and
coiorcd ~ No. 50 Roo,cyclt-St; Mary and Sarah
lieanc, mother and child. Of No. 3J Chcrryst.
Joseph Golden, seven years old, Of No. 90 Cherry
St MARY Rowan, child. Of No i29 West Fifty
,ecomd-st Mary Ryan, aged hfty-four Of No. =
Olivcr-st and John Brown. aged twenty eight, WHO
was sent from the Chambers Street Hospital.
HOW THE DISEASE SPREAD.
DR. Doty and eight inspectors Of the Bureau Of
Contagious DiAases, with ivc sanitary policemen.
went 10 tcncmcnt-hou>cs IN Roosevelt. Madison.
Cherry, OAK and Oliver SIS. last nIyht % search
for concealed cases of smallpox and 10 vacclnat"
inmates OF houses where there was reason TO sns-
pcct contagion DR.. Doty said that the spread "f
smallpox in the city of late had been due 7" con
cealed cases IN tcncmcnt-houses. In July five
persons were i'll with the disease several days III
the house 40. % Pcll-,t and were not attended hy
any physician Nearly 100 persons were exposed
o. contapion in the house before the nature oi the
maladv W.as made known and the patients Were
removed. Among the persons VINO causn. l"' ulN
case there was the Clinaman 'hung roy, VIZ wv
fled from the authorities and dl"d AT No. : vi
churd-~t after exposing number ol lanllll"- W
smallpox smallpox patient IRON. BtookiNh r1'. car.
ricd the discaS" {" me tcpeih'h,.' ro ,orsrs
Wadi.on-st which sheltered about SIM; persons
Three pnr-ons were III in that nous" llt" u
August and two physlcanS thought ,'ir nis'"r ''
was measles until it. had reached IN" hlcnlN co.,,
tanions stage of smallpox. In" coh'"Sph -, ~
mcouwhilc spread 10 houses in thcrry-'t men
Iviug in The. infected houses have been AZ WORK
AZ diiIcrc Il places IL the city ana t', co'l"-l"'
NAV have bc.n spread widely, though the san
it1ry officials cannot tell yet how far.
Ur poty returned to the Iurcau OF Contaslon,
Diac,sns soon after midnight last night. lie Sdii
hat he and lis assistants lad vaceina'c ,,,,r "Srr
ZOO people in The tcnencnt-H houses IN n. ,mll3
RooscIclt and Oak SIS. At No. % ,hriry st.
Ioro thnrc had been cases of smallpox. tll" ply
sirians found thirty forty Brooklyn people MAY
inc merry al a social party. Tia" pohce prompt!
n,ar,lrd thc Doors and inspectors Varcihhtr 'N'IN
nan and woman in the party. II ~ 30 'hfl
81 woman named Mr.. Mary Erickson hl,y
years old. was found i'll with th" disease ana wa, M
scnt 10 the Island hospital. some tim" ago 'h'ire
,r cases in tie house and she refused 10 h2
Varcinatcd. Her two children were Nacclhat'u
last uipht. The inspectors Will make another 'ou'
tonight