New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-27
ITdLTaNS CONCEAL SuILLPOX CASES.
HEALTH INSPECTORS FORCED TO BREAK DOORS
IN THEIR sEARCH-NESTs OF THE

DISEASE DISCOVERED
one Of Or. Doty's inspectors found three cases OF
concealed smallpox in the big tenement house No.
g hottest yesterday afternoon. The police re-
ported that there was suspicious case in the
house. but when tho inspector went there he found
the doors of the rooms the top floor. where he
had been tod the patient was. locked and barred
The occupants refused to admit the Inspector, not
withstanding his threats to arrest them and he was
compelled to break the door in 4 search OF the
rooms revealed nothing. but just as he was going
away he heard some ono snecze The noise came
from a corner I'm the room where there stood a big
trunk. Lifting the cover Of the trunk. he as
covered an Italian boy hidden In It and covered
with bedding. The lad covered with eruptons
and had been III with smallpox for five days No
doctor had been called in. The parents tried every
way to keep the lad from being taken to the hos
pital but the inspector sent for the ambulance IN
the spot and had him removed to the Reception
Hospital. The lads name is Joseph Garbar.na
eight years old.
In apartments the next floor below two more
children were found hidden away The Inspector
again had to force his way In as the doors were
locked when ne knocked for admlttance. and he
had to batter them down He found Theresa cay
onna four years OLD down with smallpox. She has
been i'll several days. The other case was Ernest
Carcayano. eighteen months old. lie had been Ill
for twenty days and is about recovered both
The tcnoment, house shelters twenty-five families.
About half are Chinese and the other II mans ~,
Dotv has detailed several officers To go through IN
tenement-houses in the neighhorhood ana make
thorough search for more cases
The third case OF smAllpoy in the lodging house NJ
No II Bowcly since Saturday turned up at the
Good Samaritan DispensaTy EsseX ana ir'v ,.,e
SITS. yesterday afternoon The strichen person W
William Bronson. thirty seven years Ola Sihc' 80"
urday night thirteen cases OF SMALLPOX nay, "'o,,
removed from this city 10 Riverside Hospital a'
North Brother Island.
Health officers discovered another nest OF small
box late on Saturday night In the tenement nous
No 500 West Thirty-sixth-st. Three Children,
named Schneider and a woman named SchiuP am am
her ten-month hold daughter were iound III WIN
the cOntaeion. All the victims were : NJ up i'
North Brother Island. The inspcctor VINO hal nt ~
sent to investigate the Schiup cases. IN EnlnE
through the house found other cases The liitl'
victims are Louisa Corucla and Frank Schneld'r,
respectively four and three years aht firEcn
months old They have been SICK Tor s"Nera! "a}S
and the parents thought they hai chlcken-poN' ~
did consider II necessary To- can up'lpI MI
Schlup and her child caught Tho disease rom tle
Schneider children. and Frank Ma Nner' ni'Y-lMp
years old. the father OF Mrs Schneider Wh' WI
stricken on Washincton's Birthday ana W. r.
moved from his house at 80. 535 West foftielh-s'
also contracted II while visiting his srandchHdEeh'