Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-31
PARALYSIS KILLS 2 MORE;
8 BABIES DIE THIS SUMMER


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and died yesterday In the Municipal Hos.
| pltal The two children who died today
were only reported as being sufferers yes.
terday. Others reported yesterday were
| Max Abrams, 4, 1859 North Delhi street
Susan Downing, IA, 1885 South Broad
street Anna Petrilla, 2s months, 423 East
Rittenhouse street James Roocero, years,
e4i League street. and John Becker 13
months, Of s643 North Marshall street
DR.. A A. Cairns, chief medical inspector,
today struck an omlnous note whom he
asked all physicians, through the news
papers. to please report their cases to the
health department as rapidly as they dag
nose them, and as early in the day as they
can. He intmated that the health de-
partment expects to be just about as busy
as It will be humanity possible to be- and
he wants all the assistance physicians can
give.
Doctor Cairns has definitely abandoned
his belief that an adult cannot carry the
, disease, even though being himself with
out It. and has decided that in several cases
adults have carried IL. In the case of the
Downing girl, he believes It was brought
from New York by her father, n hotel de-
tectlve over there. and he has decided to
make n quarantine In all cases absolute.
He will permit no one In house where
the disease has gained a foothold, and the
bread-wnner in the family will not be all
lpWeu 10 10 10 WbEk Inc QudTdullue VIII
be as absolute as in a case Of smallpox.
The Hunting Park section up in the
Forty.thlrd Ward has been very prolific as
place to catch the disease, Doctor
Cairns has learned, ana he is warning par
ents to keep their children away from there
while he investigates One Of the deaths to-
day end the new case of Virginia Kline are
In that section. Virginia has an older sister
by one year who was III the other day, but
who recovered. Nevertheless the doctors are
doctors are watching her closelY lest she
watching her closely lest she suffer a re-
lapse which turns into this dread disease.
OF the eight deaths this year. all but one
have been this month. or the forty-two
Cnses forty-one have been this month.
Ralph S. Strassburger fed from New York
to his estate near Norrlstown yesterday,
using his father-in-law's yacht to make the
trip. Mrs. Strassburger is the daughter of
Frederick G. Bourne. of New York.
The strassburgers were on the Bourne
estate in Long Island A gardeners child
on the estate was stricken. Although Mr..
Strassburgers infant son did not come
within half a mile of the sick child, his
father took no chances, and he got in touch
with the yacht by wireless, getting here
last night.
Doctor Cairns is seeing to It that II
parents lack in the least way the proper
facilities and means to cope with the dis
ease the children are taken to the Munlci-
pal Hospital He has also satisfied himself
that an adult can transmit the disease from
one child to another without suffering him
self. Heretofore he thought this was not
possible.
Getting children out of New York and
Brooklyn is no easy matter, because the
authorities are bound they will not allow
the infantile paralysis spread II there is any
possible way of preventing 1t.
Mrs, Martha shaner and her 6-year-old
and Reedland streets, Philadelphia, had a
hard time leaving Brooklyn and getting
home. Three special applications and per-
mits had to be granted them before they
were allowed to leave New York.
In the first place an application was
sent to the Department of Health. City Of
New York, saying:
IT hereby apply for a certificate that
there has been no case of poliomyelitis at
my residence, 312 East Eighth street, Bor-
ough of Brooklyn" This Is signed by Mrs.
Shaner. Attached to that application Is
a certificate that the house has never had
n case In 1t. It is signed by New York
medical inspector. This Is accompanied
by health certificate from DR.. j. h. Given,
463 Ninth street who says: This is to
certify that have examined Tille Shaner,
6 years old, of Philadelphia, and believe
her In normal health"
But this Is not all. In order to be allowed
to come to Philadelphia there must be yet
another certificate addressed to the health
officer, Philadelphia. This bears the permit
TO allow persons to go through and is
stamped in red ink, examined and passed"