New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12

Will save great inconvenience and de
lay"
Canvass Begins Monday.
The house toulouse visits by nurses
in the city will begin Monday morning,
following conference between the
thirty nurses who will be engaged and
DR.. John S. Billings, Deputy Health
Commissioner The nurses have been
provided by several charitable organi-
nations. among them the New York and
Brooklyn Associations for Improving
the Condition Of the Poor, the New
/ York Nurses Association, the Henry
Street Settlement, the United Jewish
Aid and the United Hebrew Charities
DR.. Billings said yesterday that il
was not the purpose of the movement
20 visit every house in the greater city.
Plague ridden districts in Manhattan
in the neighborhood of Grand and Pike
streets, and in Brooklyn. in the Cen
trail Avenue district, have been select
ed for test purposes. The nurses will
visit each house twice a week, and Will
report on the character of the dwelling,
the sanitary condition of the house and
yard. the number of children, cats, dogs,
rats and mice, and the recent and pres
ent cases of illness on the premises.
1.-THE work will continue for month"
said Dr. Billings, land if any beneficial
results at all are shown, it will be eX-
tended to the limit of our resources.
SO great has been the demand on the
hospitals that il has been difficult to
obtain sufficient nurses. This is one
reason why we are choosing certain
. districts and testing the plan
Number of Cases Fewer.
The slight decrease in the number of
new cases and deaths reported yester-
dav is believed to be due TO the contin-
ued cool weather. The Health Depart
ment listed l65 new cases in the five
boroughs, Brooklyn having 70, Manhat-
tan so, Queens IS, The Bronx 10 and
Richmond 4. The deaths were 81, dl-
vided as follows: Brooklyn 10, Man,
haitian 7, Queens 7, The Bronx and
Richmond /. There are now in the city
1913 cases, of which 1874 are IN hos
pitfalls.
DR.. Charles E. Bolduan, director of
the Bureau of Public Health Educa,
ton. said yesterday that the special
poliomvelitis clinics held recently were
so successful that the Health Depart
ment had been asked by physicians to
repeat them. new course has been
arranged on this schedule;
Bellevue Hospital, Ward 80, every
Monday at o'clock; Lebanon Hospital,
every Tuesday, $3.50; Willard Parker
Hospital, every Wednesday, a; Babies
Hospital, every Thursday, 4; NJ. Sinal
Hospital, every Friday, q; Kingston
Avenue Hospital, every Friday, a. AT,
tendance will be strictly limited, ana
physicians desiring to attend must
annlv in advance for cards of admis-
sion. The clinics will continue for hve
or six weeks.
Banks Of for Conference.
/ DR.. Charles f. Banks and DR.. c; H..
/ Lavinder. of the United States Public
Health Service, went to Washington
Yesterday for a conference with the
/ Service Board, Of which DR.. A. II. Oleh-
ron is chairman. This conference was
preliminary to the meeting Oh state
and territorial health authorities IN the
capital next Thursday, by which 1t is
hoped to standardize methods of COM
hating the further spread OF infantile
Dr. John II. Finley, State Commits
( sicner of Education, issued lnstruc-
, ti3ns from Albany yesterday to school
erintendents throughout the state
IN obey the mandate Of their local
{ health boards regarding postponlng the
olfnine of the public schools. lie De,
/ clared that if the situation was at an
| serious in any community the schoois
sSould not be opened until the danger
/ WIS past. -
/ With twenty-four new cases re-
D,rted in the state outside New York
! civ the state health authorities yes
tcrday notified all district officers TO
ncobibit children from attending fairs
and picnics or other gatherings where
they were likely to congregate IN large
/ numbers. 80 GO, :,