The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-26
STRANGE MALADY IN NEWARK
FOUR SISTERS DOWN WITH IT
and DOC TORS PUZZLED.
assemblies Meningitis In some Respects
and r. phus In others Is Contagious
suspicion That u WAY Have Keen
CauGht IN second Cabin " Campanla

caught ~ $ecOni = ANU VI a"L'N"'~
The pbys!cian. at the Newark City Hos
initial are Interested in th" Case Of -four sis
tors who arr ut Al institution suffering
with a malignant foyer which Il attended
nv SYMPTOMS similar 70 tho~a % meningitis
and also similar - those Of typhuS fever
but which the doctors have not been able
A. yet - diagnu-o satisfactorily. A'Sus-
n,ci,p that the myst, riou- malady infected
the four sisters while they were passengers
in The st,erags on the Cunard liner CAM
p.pIa which arrived three weeks q
cau-,d m" Newark authorities to call the
~at,eutioa o. tn, quara time officers TO the
Ca~.
The victims are the daughters Of George
O~le..tc Of C3S south Fourteenth street,
Newark. Their ages range from 10 years
IN 4 They left Bremen, went to Liver
pool aud came 90 this country from that
,ity. Tho first Manifestation 81 illness
Oprear red a week age last Monday and
DR. John Nydos Of ~ sixteenth avenue
was called IN. Fic was unable to diagnose
me case and called several other physicians
IA his aid. All we're mystified by the
,vmptoms and this week it was decided TO
rsr,rt the case to the Newark health
DR. onward r. Worl, superintendent Of
the Bureau OF Contagious Diseases, ordered
the removal Of the four girls 10 the Clty
Hospital. where thcy were placed in an iso-
hfej ward. Amoug the early symptoms
were q high feN or, which sent the tempera-
turc up 10 M degrees at times. ana the APP
nparauCp 81 red spots on the arms. pr.
NNnrl = we'll 4, tho other physicians found
symptoInS -Iggc~tiN q OF both meningitis and
typhls. lilo had meteorological tests made
from cultures, but the diagnosis failed to
pToducc positive results in any OF the cases.
although they established the fact that the
urls were suffering from a highly virulent
conta gious fever. The obserN atoms made
by the quarantine physician have been no
more MOSTLY q a. TO results than those OF the
Newark doctors. The period of incubation
of typhus IL twelve days, and the fact that
the disease first made its appearance about
that number Of days after the girls left the
ship strengthened the suspicion that the
malsdv M! v he typhus.
The olde - of the girls told the doctors
that a Jewish woman was brought aboard
the Campania M Liverpool sick. She was
placed IN the same cabin with the Oleksic
Eirls and some thirty or more other pas
,sngcrs. TIE girl described the symptoms
uG thiH woman's illness as being similar
TO those she and her sisters are now show
ing. She said that the quarantine authori-
ties apparently did not discover any trace
of sickness in the Jewish the girls
Themselves or any Of the other passengers
in their cabin, a., according to her state
ment, mono of them was detained.
II wa. said at Quarantine last night that
when the Campdnia reached there the
ships doctor reported that there had been
no illness on board. The steerage passen-
gers were thoroughly examined and all
were uassed. When the case was reported
TO the Quarantine authorities from Newark
teveral inspectors investigated II, but were
una bic to learn ANYTHING definite about
the Jewish woman The Quarantine author
jtioa regard the fact that the girls weren't
taken III until twelve days after they landed
% proof that they didn't contract the dis
case on the ship.