The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-16

III was found tina, the case was elm
rally cholera and Cushing was inmcdi-
atelv removed to Swinburne Island and
the necessary precautions were taken TO
prevent the spread Of the disease a. the
hospital C,ishing's home was thoroughly
dsinfected under the supervision of Dr
Sprague. sanitary superintendent OF the
Borough of Richmond Dr. Doly feels
that the occurrence of this case on Staten
Island need not cause any alarm since
the precautio nary measures instituted
were so promptly and thoroughly carried
out All those who might possibly have
been exposed to the disease will he kept
health authorities
The situation as regards the country
at large is satisfactory. There have
been no secondary cases following the
! isolated cases at Auburn and in Brooklyn,
and none is anticipated in the Staten
Island case
Commissioner Charles y. Bulger. APP
pointed by Gov. Dix to hear the COM
plants made against Health Officer Doty,
, was Interested yesterday when Lawyer
' Charles Dushkind. representing ip,mi-
| grants who have complained To- the uov
amor, took up line of questioning tend
, ing to give the impression that all those
who have been present at the hearings
| in Part H. at the County Court House
and some who didn't attend. have been
l exposed TO cholera. The witness MIR
Duehkind questioned was Charles Leavitt
the Hoffman Island carpenter who testi-
fled at Fridays hearing.
, In answe er to Mr. Dushkind's questions
the carpenter said that five men had
come from Hoffman Island where there
! have been number of cholera cases,
, to testify at the hearing since last Thurs
day. He said that before coming to the
hearing he had changed his clothes but
wore suit that he kept at the island
and that he had not been "fumigated"
} before leaving the island The change
of clothes had been his own idea
Leavitt said that DIR. Rimer. one of
Dr.. Doty's assistants. had told him on
lThursday that Hoffm an Island had been
iquArantined and had ordered him to re-
J turn that night The witness admitted
that since he was under subpoena he
, hadn't thought it best to go back and had
spent the night in house in Cannon
street.
That's in the congested district of
{ the East Side. isn't it," asked Mr.. Dush-
kind, and when the witness said that it
! was the lawyer turned to Commissioner
J Bulger:
Il want to impress upon YOU. Mr.. Com
missioner said the lawyer. that the
| testimony of this witness is highly i'm
portant. DR.. Doty. who is the guardian
of the health of this city. permits wit
\ nesses to come here daily from Hoffman
Island. where he admits that there have
been cases of cholera and where
there are several suspicious cases to
1 mingle with the people Of the city. And
the clothes of the witnesses were not
even fumigated"
Leavitt repeated much o. the testimony
, that he gave on Friday. He said that
sometimes there was no water in the
dormitories where the immigrants were
lodged because the pumps were out of
order and that tho barhtubs were On
crusted with rust for "a long time but
had been enamelled recently He testi-
fled also that a Mrs AlaNandrofsky had
complained that an employee of the de-
partment had attacked her and that he
had heard of many indecent happenin q
on the island
IL IL was true that the women immi-
grants VINO worked at Quarantine got
better food and had more privileges than
those who didn't Leavitt replied that
women with sick children often asked for
permissio ion to work in the hCspita! so that
they would see their children He had
not heard that mothers had been kept
away from their dying children
The witness III reply To questions nut
by Commissioner Buiger said thal he had
been at Hoffman Island for about eight
years and that the only time the en-
ployees We're quarantned wa. about
seven years ago
sAnd so for the past seven years all the
employees have been allowed To mingle
with the immigrants and then come over
here 10 the city without being f,miga,edg" >"
Gueried the commi. siOner Ieavitt said
that such was the ease
George =, Scohed, appearing in the
interests of DR.. Doty. asked Ieavitt IL
he had ever heard of any one being in
fected a. result of the Hoffman Island
said he hadn't
Then Leavitt was asked to recall a
checker game which he played with Dr
Hudson two or three weeks ago He
remembered that "A revolver lay on the
table during the game. but he couldn Z
recall that the doctor gay" the gun to a
watchman 10 chase an Italian immigrant
with, He did see an Italian doing a
sprint out of the room and remembered
seeing the Italian the next day
Commissioner Bulgar wanted tn know
how often DIR Doty visited the island
Jeaviti said that the doctors visits were
irregular sometimes he came every day
and sometimes not oftener than twice
a week He was there every day last
week" said the witness
Leavitt also told the commissions
that he had started the attack on DIR
Doty by telling his story to a JEWS h
newspaper He said that he did 80 be
cause he thought that the immigrant :
were badly treated Many women had
complained 10 him, he said. and when
asked 10 give a specific instance he re-
piled that one woman had told him that
she had found her child in the hospital
with piece of sticking plaster across
its mouth 10 prevent il crying He added
that he reported the matter TO DR. Hudson,
who said that the nurse responsible for
gagging the child would be discharged
The hearings will be resumed on Tuesday
DEBTS or LOIIS kORN,