The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-20
C0NGESTED CONDITIONS lN INSANITARY HOUSES
 UP TO MANUFACTURERS
Dr. Abraham Sophian, Health Expert, Puts Prob
 lem Up to Factory Owners Must Provide Suitable
 Quarters For Workers.
 Health Department to Pre- vent Overcrowding Trol- ley Cars Seat For Every Person to Be Asked-E
 demic Outlook Cheerful.

demic Outlook Cheerful. Bridgeport's house problem is s'up to the manufacturers" according to pr. Abraham Sophian, the expert who is conducting the fight here here against infantile paralysis.
 'aThe congestion here has to end," declared pr. Sophian this morning. after a session with the board of health. If the manufacturers com stiHue to bring men here to work they must provide sanitary quarters for them as the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. is doing.
 "In making the rounds yesterday I discovered many places where per- i sons are crowded into one insanitary room. This must be remedied and 1t is up to the manufacturers to help. They must provide suitable places for their workers.
 We shall order. families out of in- sanitary quarters. The question will 1 be asked: Where shall we go?' That must be answered by supplying better quarters for these families"
 From the standpoint of those who are fighting the epidemic here, to- day was the most cheerful day since poliomyelitis invaded the city.
 Not a positive new case was re- corded today, the one case reported 2 zxesterday proved to be stomach trou- Bfe. and all but-o of the patients isolated in Hilldde home were report ed recovering. s.
 Physicians determined today that tho case of Mary Rakow of TO Front ustret, removed to Hillside home. is one of definite polionyelitis.
 The case of Dorothy Hutchinson. < aged 22 months. of 1s Jetlan place. was reported this morning but Dr. 8. M. Garlick of the Medical Society, i idiagnostic board, assigned to the case, learned 1t was one of measles.
 pr. H. LeBaron Peters, who made a meteorological test in the case. of John Carey; aged two. of 63S Broad street. reported this morning that the case Is one of stomach trouble. The chiid has been under observation at Hillside home. The quarantine will be raised on his home.
 It was reported today that an fn- fantile paralysis case has been found at Fairfield beach, pr. valery Ha-
 
 "I have heard rumors of that. but 4 have been unable to find any such case. None of the physicians of the ] town know of it.
 ' pr. Sophian made it plain today {, that all funerals of persons who have dice of poliomyelitis, meningitis. or othen diseases, the symptoms of which are akin, must be private. nxl-s h~ ic fnr Y1rn ton of the residents of Bridgeport. Not only this measure, he said. but the other health rules recently adopt ed, should be obeyed implicitly by everybody for his own protection.
 With no new case today and one supposed case yesterday found to be only stomach trouble, the outlook was very promising, according to pr. So- phian. He said the recovery of all the children at Hillside home, with one exception, is practically certain. There Is one serious case. Partial perma- nent paralysis, however, may be suf- fered by some of the patients.
 Dr. Maurice Steinberger reported this afternon the case of Michael Euchak, aged five, of 413 Spruce street, which may be meningitis or poliomy- elitis. It is expected pr. c. N. Has, kell will make an examination to de- termine the nature of the case.
 Arrangements were made today for the dental hygienists and their super visors to aid in the preventative work. NA campaign among the foreign-speak- ing residents of the city will be insti- tuted. Meetings of foreign-born per- sons will be held in some of the larger halls of the city.
 Hall f,a given in the factories of the city, it is expected, if the manufacturers co-op- crate. The dental committee of the dental clinical department, Drs. A. c. Zones, R. H. W. Strang, J. H. Calla- han, W. J. Mclaughlin and T. A. { tGanung will be asked to aid in the preventative work.
 Tooay the nurses on the New York boat were removed as they are no longer needed. Children under 10, bound for Bridgeport, are not allowed to board the boat Miss Loretta Ahearn, and the Misses Kline and Mo- Grady were added to the nurses staff today. Canopies will be obtained for the nurses at the entry point of the city to protect them from the sun, it t1s expected.
 Dr. Sophian today instituted a campaign against crowded trolley cars. inspectors were busy getting lrepots on them. He said the Connec- ticut Co. will be asked to instruct conductors not to allow persons to board trolleys after certain num- Der have been received. Everybody f is entitled to seat" he declared, If he pays, and nobody should be taken who cannot get seat"
 There couldn't be anything more important" said Dr. Sophian. "Crowding trolley cars is a menace in such a crfss as this."
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