The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-29
TWO BOROUGHS IN GRIP
OF MFANTUE PARALYSIS
Health Board Reports FOG Cases in Brooklyn and About
30 in Manhattan-Special Hospital Pavilion
Created and Strict Orders Issued.

on Saturday. July !. at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon at the Polhemus Memorial
Clinic. There will be a general discus
sion afterward.
Importance Of Precautions.
This fact was made plain yesterday e.:
no alarm Is felt by the Health Depart
ment over the situation. The number
OF cases now 10 about 8 per cent. Of
those i'll 1907. when $500 cases were
reported. All efforts now being made
are for the purpose Of convincing house,
holders OF the Importance Of precautions.
These include sunlight and clean SUR
~roundings. with care that children
should not be permitted TO 60 anywhere
near the infected districts. approach
any person from an infected home or
play with strange children at any time.
The carrier Of infantile paralysis
makes the disease dangerous. Its period
Of incubation after infection runs from
three to ten days and during that period
a child on the street may infect many
children. Then there are the other car
riers. who do not become Ill themselves,
but spread the disease.
The course Of the disease runs about
eight weeks. and nj the meeting OF the
Health Board yesterday afternoon IL
was decided TO make the quarantine
period OF a house and family for that
length OF time.
infantile paralysis can occur in dif-
ferent forms and in varying degrees OF
severity. The most frequent type Is
characterized by a sudden fever. fol-
lowed usually in from twelve hours to
three or four days by a general or
localized paralysis. This paralysis Is
IN the great majority OF Instances Of a
limp or fiaccid type. followed more or
less by the wasting OF the muscles
affected. Vomiting and convulsicns oc-
u frequently at the onset. but are not
constant symptoms. A more marked
indication is a headache. restlessness.
irritability and sleepleseness. which oc-
u In a large proportion Of the cases
very early. The cases are easily
diagnosed AS a rule and n physician
should he called at the FIRST symptoms.
The department yesterday published
a list Of the houses in BROOKLYN and
Manhattan where cases are known. This
IL simply Cor the purpose Of informing
parents in order that their children may
he kept ava from the neighborhood.
The list follows:
brooklyn.
=. Aa.lpm street 1871 Ashland place.
1875 Atlantic avenue.
n.
%, sis. asa, 40; as, ~ and sss Baltic
1853 and :o7 Butler street.
trail avenue: 81 ana sic Columbia street.
II.
1911 and 1928 Dean street. 100, .'. ~.
snd yss Desra~ street. SOL DE kalb avenue.
80" Es., Third street; az; Ea;. Ninth
place.
,7s. 80 lis. sis and sis Fonr,S avenue;
ie' and iss Franklin avenue.
q.
50 and " Gsrnsid place. q e.rn.,
street.
.,rs., a 4 H.n:m.n '. ..r IA "a. h:rr; ,".'
80, as. a6s and SIS Hicks street; 36s
Hughes street.
ia ana ?2s johnson avenu..
SIS and ~s Ken, .venu..
I. Lexington avenue.
20 Mau,.r street. 81: Myrti. avenue.
sss N.v,n. street; la x.l.o. stree,
.,r ~ ' 10. 49, 80. 81. ss'i &c : :n; !is So s,.. r:s,,
street. 40 Prince street; iN and s?i Pros
poet avenue.
isc. $50. 7o<. III ana iiB ssckett street:
Sio. second avenue; 8 Second place; 5olt
s srEyinn,a s,rnge' s0ss SIN sy.n1: -
street. sOi stockton Street. is, sumner
avenue,
70 7..n, ..;;., ;. Ten Eye. stree.
1874. 40. ,.,. sos. 'S;.,. SIS. rss and ,ss
Union street. Is Utica avenue.
as, 80, and 20, Van prun, street. ,,r
nue.; is we.t Sin,h .,rss,. .ssS Nest ss
Twen,y-frst street. tss Williams avenue.
Numbered str-~s..
:s:, eco. 2ss and :soA lat street, s.s and
~ 18Th street; 5? and 81 18th street.
81 ssih az" .,ld istf i': r.. .', .,s..i lss s! 's,h :! "a ::i
1873 and 30 2.th street. 1873, a., and 3:s 9th
i,1es,; IA az, stree, az 'sd street;
sss .:,h street; s;s;7 and AND ~ .sssssa :sTss,.
stree "'s s7 s's anS :Ss s s5is stree: street; III ,..s
and Fort Hamilton avenue: 1857 and 1867
s5th street; 1917 6sth street; 1857 7.d
street. 1881 TAIN street.
Manhattan.
l57 East iicth street: IS jackson street, :
5t3 East sixth street. 81 West Tooth street,
23O East Ninety ninth street: l22 Seventh
avenue. 229 East seventeenth or Tenth
street. Post-Graduate; 1877 East I:ai
street; i77 East Eighty eighth street; l2t
Clinton, street: l6s Delaney street: 9S
orchard street; ISL Columbia street: ts
James street: 2es East Ninety-eighth
street. So6 East llsth street. 3 Mulberry
street. 1856 Madison street. si7 cherry
streef