Evening journal., 1896-08-11
DEATHS BY TIE SCORE.
Great Mortality In the Metropo-
lis Caused by Heat.
PRosTRATIoNs BY TIE HUNDRED.

The Hospitals Crowded With Victims and |
the Ambulance Service Proves Entirely
Insdequate-Nauy Deaths From Heat
In Most Of the Larger cities.
NEW YORK. Aug. 1i.-Humidity and
heat still continue to claim their victlms
In New York and vicinity, and tho death
list Is appalling and ever on the increasf
The city hospitals complain that their am
balances were taxed to tho utmost cnrinn
for people suffering from heat prostra
tions, and Police Commissioner Roosevoit
ordered that the police patrol wagons ba
pressed into service to carry victims OF
the hont to the hospitals. Roosevelt hos
pital had 80 many calls that the authori-
ties sent word TO police headquarters
that their ambulance service was made
quate 20 cope with the calls sent in foI
sufferers from the heat.
Man was not alOno In his suffering.
Animals, and especially horsos-car and
truck horses--fell In their tracks, and large
numbers died The ambulanoes Of the
Society For tho Prevention OF Cruelty Ga
Animals have been kept on the go for the
past five days and are now being over
taxed.
Hundreds Of people walked along the
shady sides OF the streets hatless, coatless
and oollarless with handkerchief In ono
hand, with which they continually moppod
their brows, and a large palm leaf fan In
the other, while Farmer Dunn and tencr-
nj Humidity camo in for all sorts Of crlti.
cisms.
Ambulance Service Overtaxed.
Bellevue hospital Is overcrowddd with
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the heat. Never In rs
history has 10 been so crowded as II "a al
present Thirty-one physicians are CON
| stantly at work. Yesterday thero were 5S
| calls for cases Of heat prostration. The
| ambulance service was oyertaxed early In
| the day, and tho coal truck, supply wagon
| and even The morgne wagon, had TO bJ
| pressed into service TO take the affected 20
! the hospital, They arrived in snch mum.
bers that IL began to look alarming. Every
available spot was taken up, and all
through the halls were cots with the yio-
TINS Of the beat. Tho ambulance horses
are about disabled.
Twenty-hve calls for heat prostrations
were sent into 81 Vincehts shospital yes
terday. Sunday there wore s victims OF
the heat takon To this Institution In am
balances and 1G on Saturday. ST. Vim
cents has but one nmbulance, and the
horse Is thought TO be dying, Thero arc al
present 40 patients In this hospital who
would not be there were it not for th'
heat
The physicians and nurses Of the New
York hospital are caring for 90 patients
Yesterday there were ~ calls. On Sunday
but 10 patients wore taken there suiferini
from beat and / on Saturday.
| In Roosevelt hospital there are about a
patients who are thoro on account OF thl
heat Half dozen ordorhes and sovero
nurses ara kept busy placing fresh piece
Of leo on the sufferers. About - NOR
wero taken there yesterday.
The cnses of heat prostrntion, many he
ing followed by death, became so numoi
ons oil over the city that people wer
alarmed and wondered whom and wber
tLis great monaco to human liIe woul
end.
For the past i've days tho maximum
temperature has bcen 30 degrees on there
about. The mean temperature for IN
pnst week wns 81. Up to II o'clock lns
night there were reported for the day ! 4
heat prostrations and 90 doashs.
There wore 81 deaths in brooklyn nni
20 IN the suburbs. The number OF dea' h
reported since last Wednesday we're; Ney
York, 1888; Brooklyn, "a; suburbs, 80
making total In greater New York O
26G.
Tho following doaths In tho prlnclpn
oltles nre reported as result Of yesterday
excossivo heat. Philadelphia IL; Balti
more a. Washington, 3; Chicago, 30; 81
Louis, IL; Pittsburg, s. Rochester, I
Buffalo, 2 Provid, nee Q; New Haven, .
Hartford. 3 : Cleveland 3; indianapolis
/; Louisville, .; Atlanta, ! knnsa
City, /.
Thero were 8S deaths In various town
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