March 14, 2018 • www.theobserver.com • Vol. CXXX, No. 44
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COVERING: BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD • EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY
GETTING HIS DUE
Man’s discovery saved countless lives in Belleville By Karen Zautyk kzautyk@theobserver.com BELLEVILLE — At the intersection of Belleville and Franklin avenues stands the imposing building that was once the Essex County Isolation Hospi-
Main photo: The original TB Hospital in Belleville opened in 1911. Inset: Albert Schatz’s 1938 high school yearbook photo.
tal — a 550-bed facility whose “isolated” patients included a sizable number suffering from tuberculosis. In 1929, when the facility was built, highly-contagious TB was an incurable disease. Also known as consump-
tion, it had been a literal plague upon mankind for thousands of years — according to researchers, between 5,000 and 9,000. It is obviously impossible to calculate See TB, Page 25
Doomed East River chopper took off in Kearny By Kevin Canessa kc@theobserver.com A helicopter that crashed into New York City’s East River Sunday, March 11, killing all five of its passengers, took off
from a helipad in South Kearny, according to numerous published reports. The chopper went down in the East River at around 7 p.m. that night, the Federal Aviation Administration said in
a Tweet, though it was not immediately clear what time the chopper took off from South Kearny. The helicopter, red in color, was a Eurocopter AS350 with tail ID
N350LH, operated by Liberty Helicopters, which lists its address as 165 Western Road, Kearny — just several See CHOPPER, Page 26
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