New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Officials Feel Sure Disease
Will Be Wiped Out by
That Time.
ONLY 43 NEW CASES,
Is DEATHS, DAYS TOLL
Hospitals Need 100 Ounces
of Blood Daily TO Cure
Paralysis Patients.

Forty fewer cases OF infantile
paralysis were reported by the Health
Department yesterday than on Sunday.
There were four more deaths. The
new cases numbered fOrty-three. the
smallest total for any day since July
3. Deaths numbered twenty-five.
Children now in the country should
not be brought back to New York
until infantile paralysis disappears or
is reduced to the normal number OF
cases. Senior Surgeon Charles F.
Banks. Of the United States Public
Health Service. said yesterday.
Il believe that by the middle OF
September we will be having only ten
or twelve cases a day and the epidemic
stage will therefore be over" said DR.
Banks: but / advise parents to keep
their children away until the disease
has been wiped out"
In the opinion of the health authori-
ties this will be accomplished by
October 1.
Schools May Open September %.
With daily Health Department re-
PORTS showing that the epidemic is
waning steadily it is becoming more
certain that the public schools will be
opened not later than September %.
Health Commissioner Emerson has
announced that children returning from
out of town would not be barred from
school. If, however, they come from
places in which infantile paralysis
cases have been found they will be re-
ouired. in the event Of their having
returned to New York within period
of two weeks before the opening of the
schools. TO present health certificates.
If they do not have certificates they
will be barred from school for two
weeks. The certificates must be issued
bv the health authorities of the places
from which the children come.
Teachers will be instructed by the
Board of Education to insist upon OBJ
servance of these rules.
One of the twenty cases reported in
Manhattan yesterday was in the Brook
field, an apartment house at $50 River
side Drive. Another was in the New
York Founding Hospital, 175 East Six
tv-eighth Street Most of the cases
were on the East Side.
But seven cases were reported from
Brooklyn, the lowest figure for the
borough since June 20. when the cpl
demc was just beginning TO cause
alarm. Queens had eight cases, The
Bronx seven and Richmond one.
SO Patients Quit Hospitals.
Yesterday, for the first time, the
number of patients discharged from
hospitals exceeded the number admit
ted. The outgoing total was thirty
nine; the incoming, thirty-six. There
are now 3,94l paralysis patients IN the
city's hospitals.
THE days report of new case:
speaks for itself" said Deputy Health
Commissioner Billings. at is most en-
couraging. Monday figures are Away:
low. but | do not expect that to-mor
rows report will show more thar
twenty new cases in Brooklyn"
One thousand letters were mailed
yesterday by the citizens committee
organized for the purpose of obtaining
blood serum, 10 persons who have haC
infantile paralysis and whose name:
were listed on hospital, dispensary anC
Health Department records. Each was
asked TO give little of his blood. A
picture showing the simple way II
which the blood is taken was incloseC
IN each letter.
Need 100 Ounces Of Blood Daily.
Health Department officials are dis
appointed at the seeming indifference
of former victims of paralysis to the
appeals for blood for serum, which i:
badly needed.
with fear of a marked increase il
the epidemic past" said DR.. Charles F
BOlduan, Of the Health Department
Yesterday, "our chief work is to cure
victims Of the disease. Even with only
fifty cases being reported each day
and probably we will average more
than that for some time-we will have
use for considerable quantities Of
serum. The hospitals need at least
fifty ounces a day, which means that
one hundred ounces Of blood would
have 70 be contributed daily"
Twenty ounces of blood were taker
from three volunteers who appeared al
Willard Parker Hospital yesterday. Al
the Brooklyn Health Department head
quarters four ounces were taken from
one man who several days ago gave 6
considerable quantity at Willard
Parker. State Health Department ply.
sicians obtained blood from four per.
sons, the largest quantity from any
one being seven ounces. Long Island
ha g ha c4o4 10.