New-York tribune., 1900-12-22
NEW CASES OF SMALLPOX.
EDWARD BUSSEY. TREASURER OF THE
BOARD OF EDUC ALTON, STRICKEN.

Edward Bussey .trea surer of the Board of
| Education was removed from his home, No
| LOAF Trnity-ave to North Brother Island yes
| terday suffering from smallpox. Mr.. Bussey Is
| thirty-three years old He lives in the house
with his wife and two sisters. May and Mary.
and his father. who is a dentist inspectors
were sent to the house from the Board of Health
to fumigate the premises
Jennie Goeffroy twsnty-three years DID, of NO
143 Brook-ave.. removed to North Brother
Island yesterday suffering from smallpox. There
are sixteen families in the house. The girl was
stricken upon her return from Astoria. Her
father works at No. 1873 Broadway and her
brother at No. 1O1 Spring-st. There nine
persons in the family. Two of the girls Flor
ence and Alice. work in the large drygoods store
OF Lyons & Chabot, at One-hundred- -and-hftfeth-
ST and Westchester-av and the children in
the family attend school in One-hundred-and-
thirty -eigh.h-st, between Willis and Brook aves.
Assistant Sanitary Superintendent Monahan
yesterday afternoon sent corp of vaccinators
to the drygoods store Of Lyons & Chabot, where
over one hundred girls are employed When the
chief inspector reached the drygoods store with
his staff of vaccinators and attempted to go
upstairs Mr.. Chabot barred his way. The neces-
sity of the vaccination explained to Mr..
Chabot, but he would not yield. 1t was not
until he was told that the police would be called
in that he would allow the corps OF vaccinators
to go upstairs
Three other cases of smallpox were reported TO
the Health Board yesterday They
GooDWIN A. Reilly, ,hirtyhve old, of No. 2oa7
Lexington
Lyons Mabel nineteen months old. of No l.77O Leans
MNAMARA Henry twenty-five years old. of No. sos
West hundred and -twenty-hfth-st.
Dr.. Dillingham; the assistant sanitary super
intendent, denied rumor current yesterday that
smallpox had broken out In two family hotels
on the West Side. He said the guests had taken
alarm because some Of the hotel servants had
been vaccnated. DR.. Dillingham; pointed out
that there should be apprehension on the part
of the people of this city about the contagion.
He declared that smallpox prevalent all
over. the United States In Manchester. n. H..
the pesthouse full, and the authorities did
not know what to do with the new cases. In
Winona. Mimi, there were four hundred cases.
The authorities had closed the schools and for
hidden the streetcars to pass through the infected
districts. There were cases in Decatur. ILL.,. and
other small towns thereabouts in Omaha in
Iowa towns. and in the Indian Territory. Small
pox had appeared among the Kiowa, the CO.
manche and the Wichita tribes of Indians. 1t
Alaska from Dawson to the lakes and along the
Yukon River
DR.. Dillingham; declared that in New-York
City there had been only eighty-two cases
ported out of three and a half million people.
On December 10 eight of the cases were dis
charged cured, and there had been only three
deaths from the disease 1t had been usual for
the smallpox to recur every seven years. This
is the period when revaccination is necessary.
number Of doctors from the Health Board
vaccinated all members of the force from patrol
men to inspectors