New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
uss,th Officials Unable to
Make Usual Number
of Daily Visits.
"A NEW CASES AND
Al DEATHS FOR DAY
,.;asm,c's Worst Week Was
MARKED by Growth OF
Manhattan Cases.

with Illness and mortality hsure'
,,s.ntie paralysis still high the
18th Department is finding Its WORK
h' w.rh,ttan and Tho Bronx ham
cred by the car strike.
e. Efficient had the departments no
,s...,o, and isolation methods become
-. n,tients were in many cases in a
EEL within four or Ave hours after
IS. ,.,or,. of the disease were found
~. .t-iks threatens to lengthsn this
tiu. since. according to Official depart.
n,st physicians, nurses and medical
,..,,e.ors will not be able 10 make SO
80 visits each day unless enough
.,,onobnes for their transportation
-, \. procured. The work Of food in
.0,.tors and sanitary supervisors Is
-, ,nt,riered with by the strike
IN. hundred and seventy-thres new
...., and fOrty-One deaths were re-
ro,t.d yesterday. figures almost identi-
81 With those Of the day before
BROOKLYN had eighty-thrss new cases;
w,,b.ttan, Afty-One; Queens. twenty
even, Tho Bronx. seven, and Rich
nond, FIVE.
IN. week which ended yesterday wal
-. worst sines the beginning Of the
.,is.m,e It's most alarming feature
"a, N. rapid increase in the number
=, cases in Manhattan, where 36l were
,oDpd. Brooklyn reported sos; Queens
,n. The Bronx, 81, and Richmond
vh,,. the epidemic is apparently wan
,,r 80. making a total for the greater
. ,Is, ~ II67 There were 273 deaths
during the week.
2449 Cases in Hospital
MANY Of the 2,44s patients will be
discharged from the hospitals IN ABOUT
Ten DAYS. when their eight weeks guar
sntine period expires. The health au-
tborjt;es will then face the problem
~ caring for children Of the tenements
mo discharged from the hospitals, stu
,nTer from effects Of the paralysis.
Nanv Of these little patients Will De
rsrmAnently crippled, physicians say,
tut In a large percentage. OF cases
great good can be done by expert
treatment extending over considerable
Charitable organizations have al
,osdv taken m the problems the need
~ after care presents. Appeals for AID
uere made 10 the Rockefeller Founda-
ton. which invited prominent ortho,
medic surgeons 10 q conference, held
yesterday at 81 Broadway. The pur-
nose OF the conference was to advise
he foundation Of the best methods OF
organizing and carrying out the a1ter
care. The fonndation has not yet an
rounced its decision as 10 the action IL
viii take. ~,
Among those present were Health
Commissioner Emerson, Deputy State
Health Commissioner Williams, Dr. Z
G. Abbott, Of Portland, Me-; DIT. w. ,
Baer. Of Baltimore; DR.. w. J. Merrill
OF Philadelphia, and DR.. Robert !"
Lovett, of Boston, who had charge o.
the after care Of PATIENT in the Yer
mont infantile paralysis epidemic II
1912 The foundation was represented
By It's secretary, Jerome D. Greene
who presided: DIR. Simon Flexner, O
he Rockefeller Institute, and Wieklin'
Rose. director general OF the lnterna
tional Health Board. Representatives O.
the New York and Brooklyn orthopedl'
Institutions and practice present were
DIS. B. J. Farrell. Arthur II. Cllley
Il. ". Frauenthal, Y. P. Gibney, F. W