The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
GROUP OF SMALL POX CASES.
EARLY ONES HAD BEEN TREATED
As CASES or MEASLES.
Board OF Health Now Has CharEe-Ons hoy
Down With the Disease Has Been At
tending School : In Third Ave. Brock
Iyn-FIrst Case mat Of n. 2. Cochran.


tending School ! ; IN Third Ave. Brock
IJn-First Case That or n. p. Cochran.
The death Of Miss Alma g. Hotchkiss,
10 years old. Of 2sS State street. Brooklyn,
yesterday afternoon after four days Of
illness with smallpox, disclosed a condition
Of which the Health Board had no previous
knowledge. II Is feared the disease may
spread through the pupils Of Public School
is, State street and Third avenue, where a
boy, Cecil o'Donnell, "a years old, another
inmate Of the house, was an attendant.
Soon after the death Of Miss Hotohkiss
a rumoT was circulated that a double sui
eide had occurred In the house. The police
were sent to investigate, and two reporters
hurried there ahead Of them. The re-
porters had gained access 10 the house,
and before the police arrived had learned
Of the smallpox.
The police learned that two persons
had died In the house within two weeks
Of smallpox, that another woman was then
dying Of the disease In the house and that
the boy O'Donnell was also down with the
disease. A quarantine was Immediately
established by the police, none Of the in
mates being allowed TO leave the premises
and none permitted to enter.
Patrolman Frank Carberry Of the Adams
street station, who had entered the building
was detained within by the representatives
Of the Health Board, who had arrived In
the meantime, and was not allowed to
leave until he had been vaccinated.
II was ascertained that on April o Nor
man T. Cochran Is years old, vioe-presi-
dent Of the Amateur Baseball Managers
Association and manager Of the EA gle
Athletic Association, was taken sick. He
was in business at 1 Broadway, Manhat-
tan, where he kept typewriter supplies.
DR.. Dennison pronounced the case one Of
measles.
On Easter Sunday Cochran died. Dur
ing his illness young O'Donnen sat with
Cochran each afternoon after school and
read to him. He often stayed with him
In the evenings as well, awaiting the return
Of the sick mans brother, who roomed
with him.
Mise Hotchkiss helped in the nursing Of
the sick man and soon after his death che
was herself taken III. She was cared for
by Ms. Elderca Muller. Is years old, who
boarded in the house with her two year-old
daughter Cassie. Five days ago Mrs. Muller
was taken Ill, and one day lator the Don
nell boy, who Ia the son Of a wealthy Costa
Rica planter attending school here, was
taken down.
All this time the physician In attendance,
DR.. d. p. Humpstone, was treating his
patients for measles. Yesterday morning
he notified the Health Board that he did
not like the looks OF his patients and that
be had become suspicious Of the disease
and asked that diagnosticiHn be -sent to
the house. '.~.
This was done, and II was declared to be
smallpox that had attacked the household.
Word was sent to the Kingston avenue
hospital but the ambulance did not arrive
until after the death Of Miss Hotchkiss.
The O'Donnell boy was taken away at
4 o'clock in the afternoon, but for some
reason Mrs. Muller was not removed until
later in the evening, when Or, Sylvester J.
Byrne, head Of the contagious disease
bureau, took hold Of the case.
Subsequently, the body Of Miss Hotchliss,
which had been allowed 10 remain In the
house for hours after her death, was re-
moved to the Kingston avenue institution,
where IL will be placed in a comm and her
metically sealed for burial. The house
was then fumi gated and all the inmates,
FIVE In number, vaccinated by doctors from
the Health Board.
The news that smallpox had been found
in the neighborhood created great ex-
element in the many boarding houses In
the vicinity.
Undertaken Moore OF 90 Pennsylvania
avenr who buried the young man Cochran
two weeks ago, was summoned TO per-
the arrangements for tho bnrial Of Miss
Hotohhss yesterday afternoon.
He arrived at O'Clock, and when he
learned Of the cause Of death left without
entering the house, saying that his assistant
who had laid out the body Of Cochran
was sick and he feared that he might have