The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-06-16
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Eleven Cases of the Dreaded
Disease Break Out in the
Horseshoe District.
600 YACCIHATBD YESTERDAY
scourge Causes Such Terror
That Many Residents
Contemplate Leaving
Home.

Another and serious outbreak Of small
pox has been discovered in the city.
Eleven cases, including FIVE in one fam
lily, and two suspicious cases have been
reported at the Board of Health Office
on Grove street since Saturday noon.
Yesterday afternoon city physician
notified the health authorities that the
following residents of No. 59T Grove
street were stricken with the disease: -
John Lynch, age 8: Edward Lynch, age
s; Annie Lynch, age s; Mamie Lynch,
age 8. and Mrs. Katherine Lynch, age
35. The latter is the mother of John,
Edward, Annie and Mamie. Jshn Lynch,
the father. was also reported. but only
as a suspicious case. At o. 595 Grove
street, Christina Kinery, aged %. was
reported having the disease and her hus-
band Thomas as suspect.
Haelth Doctors Hart and Stewart. and
Deputy Inspector Salmon were assigned
to make an investigation They had the
victims sent to the pestheuse at Snake
Hill two hours after the cases were re-
ported.
Both Mr. Lynch, at No 597, and Mr..
Kinney, at No. 595. were detained in
their respective apartments. The prem
ises in each case were fumigated and
as each house contained other families,
they We're also placed under quarantine.
Four policemen from the Seventh street
station are on guard at the front and
rear doors of each house.
Nobody will be allowed oenter or
leave either house. Food to those I'M
prisoned is sent into each house in the
hands of policeman or deputy from the
health office. Everyone of the seven
families in each house has been yaceinat-
ed. The quarantine may last for several
days.
Residents in the neighborhood have
become 50 alarmed over this outbreak. it
being the first since CLERK John Keane
of the Tax Office became a victim, that
they are threatening TO move to other
parts of the city. The fear is so great
because this section Of the city is thickly
populated with children. attending both
st. Lucy's Parochial School, eoraer of
Grove and Sixteenth streets, and No. p
School, on Twelfth street. The Lynch
children attended St. Lucy's School. The
school building was fumigated yesterday
and many of the children attending
there, not already vaccinated, will have
the vaccine injected in their arms today.
Yesterday seyen doctors, under the di-
rection of DR.. Hart. of the Health Office,
visited the Horseshoe and vaeeinated
about six hundred people within the area
bounded by Erie street on the west, Pro-
vost and Henderson on the east, Tenth
on the north and Eighth on the south
This year was the first in twenty that
smallpox broke out in the Horseshoe dis
trict, that being the district the pest
cases are reported from. When asked
this morning how they could account for
the smallpox at Nos. 595 and 597 Grove
street, the health officials said they be-
heyeed. it had been working in the sys-
tens of the Lynehs, and the Kinerys
being neighbors and friends. and fire.
quenters of the Lynch apartments,
caught it from them.
On June 4th Nellie Lynch. 3 years old.
and the twin sister of Mamie. contracted
the disease and was sent to Snake Hill,
where she is still a patient.
On Saturday the following were re-
ported with the disease and ordered sent
to Snake Hill;-Wnliam Homer. Al
years old. Of No 21Sb West Side ave
nue.; Rudolph Maltz, Is years old, of No.
100 Graham street; Mrs. James Dodson,
% years old, of No. 240 Pine street;
Mrs. Wittehohm, SO years old, of No.
343 New York avenue, and George Me-
Cam. a years old, of No. 10 Canal
street.