New-York tribune., 1916-07-20
Health Officials Admit Dis
ease Is Unchecked as
Thirty More Die.
INCREASE SHOWN
IN MANHATTAN
,,n, Anti. Toxin Promises Relief
-l42 Cases Added to
the Sick Roll.

yvures Of illness and death from IN
,.,,1s paralysis yesterday showed
~,,ked increase for the second success
~, day. Commissioner Emerson and
.hs, officials Of the Health Depart
-, abandoned their hopes that the
Dl.sue had been checked
thirty deaths were reported during
,rsnty.four hours which ended at
-, ,hs morning. One hundred and
,.,,v.,wO new cases were found during
-. ,.ns time. Eighty-two Of these
-, IN Brooklyn. twenty-eight in Man
v...., thirteen in Queens, thirteen in
u;..rors and six in The Bronx.
n.,,se Near Whitney House.
81, the first time since the begin
,;,,O. the epidemic, Fifth Avenue was
;rr,dsd by the disease. The red and
lit. quarantine notice of the Health
DeDsr.men; was posted beside the door
=; No. s74, between Sixty-eighth and
Sir,v.uinth Streets. and adjoining the
home Of Harry Payne Whitney.
With the figures Of the day before
him Commissioner Emerson declared
that one consolation is that in all the
boroughs but Manhattan. the fighters
against the epidemic seemed to be
holding their own. Tuesdays report
showed l2l new cases. The entire in
crease Of twenty-one was revealed in
Manhattan, where the number Of new
cases mounted from seven to twenty
eight. In Brooklyn there was one less
case than the day before. Queens re-
ported the same number, Richmond two
less and The Bronx three more.
"The increase in Manhattan is dis
couraginc. indeed. Ii means that we
must redouble our efforts 70 discover
every case as soon as possible and fol-
low it up at once" said DR.. Emerson.
From the Willard Parker and Kings+
ton Avenue hospitals came reports that
.rals were being made of what may
prove TO be the long sought infantile
paralysis preventive and cure.
Anti-Toxin May Succeed.
The treatment is with an anti-toxin
ard is similar 70 that in diphtheria
and several other diseases. A small
amount Of blood is taken from a re-
covered infantile paralysis patient. The
blood is put into test tube, and by
centrifugal force the corpuscles are
separated from il. The whitish fluid
which remains is injected into the
veins Of persons i'll with the disease.
Physicians believe that infantile
paralysis forms an anti-toxin. which,
remaining in the whitish fluid, will,
after the injection is made. neutral
ize the poisonous product Of the
paralysis virus. Acting on this theory,
doctors at Willard Parker have treated
twelve cases in this way. Several chill
dyen confined in the Kingston Avenue
Hospital have also undergone the
treatment
Physicians said yesterday that excel
lent results are expected and the treat
ment will be given a thorough trial.
Under no circumstances can IL injure
a patient, II was declared.
DR.. Simon FleXner, Of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, has
been experimenting with the antitoxin
on monkeys inoculated with the infan-
tile paralysis germ. Physicians de-
clared yesterday that the treatment
has been used recently in Germany
with considerable success.
Departing Children Tested.
Coincident with further reports of
the rapid spread Of infantile paralysis
IN New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachu-
sets and New York, outside the greater
city, the United States Public Health
Service yesterday began to issue cards
st the railroad terminals TO children
leaving town.
Six surgeons Of the service, in khaki
uniforms, were detailed to the Grand
Central Terminal, the Pennsylvania
Station and the Central Railroad of
New Jersey ferries. Several hundred
cards were issued. Duplicates were
mailed 70 the health authorities at the
passengers destination. A superficial
examination is made by the surgeons
Of all applicants for the cards, but they
state nothing as TO the physical condi-
lion Of the child examined. Cards are
refused, however, TO children who are
found TO be i'll.
i is advised by Chief Surgeon Charles
L. Banks, of the Federal service, that
each child leaving the city carry one
OF these cards, though they are not re-
CURED. No card will be given unless
me child has Health Department GER
uheate which states that the child is
not III and does not come from an in
ieeted house. The cards are issued for
me purpose Of informing health au-
thorites in other communities Of the
arrival of children from New York and
Of saving people from inconvenience
as the result of quarantines declared
against New York children. The sur
geons of the Federal service will not
Issue cards TO adults.
Thirteen more surgeons will 60 on
cuty this morning at the ferries and
stations, and il is expected that there
viii be many applications for the cards
during the day.
More than 1000 certificates were
issued yesterday by the Health De-
psrtment. They were refused in nine
eases. No certificate will hereafter be
issued without examination by a physi-
clan OF the Health Department, even
though a private physicians certificate
te presented. Applicants for certif-
Gates. which are good for twenty-four
hours from the time of issue, must
furnish satisfactory Identification.
All but a few Of the cases reported
rom Manhattan yesterday were on the
lower East Side. The last resident of
the house at 874 Fifth Avenue was
Mfs. Joseph Stickney, who IN july
1918, married Prince Aymon de Lucinge
faueigny in London, and has since
made her home abroad. The paralysis
fra - 4 Il vfrl from