New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-19
Researches Have Thrown
Light on Paralysis, DR..
Emerson Says.
MANY ARE ASKED
TO GIVE UP BLOOD
Civ May Appropriate
$4,000 for Care of Con-
valescent Children.


NAMED virtually stationary yesterday.
IA. new cases reported numbered 125,
o,k four more than on Thursday, and
"a, deaths we're 80. the same number
reported on the previous day.
The research work and the field in
,.,tigstions of the Department of
Wealth and the other agencies COM
h,,ine infantile paralysis are tending
% substantiate the theory that adults
80 carriers of the paralysis germ, even
,Lough they may not actually be i'll,
nv Haven Emerson, City Health Com
missioner, said yesterday.
Roth the Health Department and the
poekefeller Institute for Medical Re-
s,srch. which is spending $4,000 to
,-see The spread of the disease, have
S;scovered numerous cases in which 1t
vas practically certain the child con-
.racted the plague by coming in contact
with adults who had been in infected
areas. This theory has also been borne
AMI by Investigations of psychologists
and laboratory experts of the United
states Public Health Service. who have
discovered cases that have developed
suddenly. in sections remote from pa
ralysis districts, Immediately following
the appearance OF adults from these
districts. Furthermore, il is q matter
~ medical record that in at least one
instance the active virus of the disease
has appeared in discharges from the
throat and nose of an apparently
healthy adult.
Scientists at the Rockefeller Institute
and at the city meteorological labora-
torv were said Yesterday to be achiev-
inc important results with experiments
an MONKEYS. the only animals in which
Il has been found possible to develop
1he disease by an injection OF virus.
Commissioner Emerson said yesterday
that while in Washington he was in
formed that all but two OF eleven mon
ksvs inoculated with the disease at the
laboratories OF the Public Health Ser
vice have developed acute cases of
psrslysis. This is an unusually high
percentage Of takes.
The Investigation by veterinary sur
reons Of the Department Of Health into
the cause Of the tnusually large num-
Der OF dead animal reports IN July and
August will be continued, and the de-
partment appealed yesterday 20 the
public 70 bring any animals that are
parslyzed or show symptoms of paraly-
sis 10 the laboratories at the foot OF
East Sixteenth Street, to be used for
experiments.
The Medical Advisory Board Of the
Health Department. AZ q meeting yes
terdsy in Commissioner Emerson's Of
fee, decided to begin an investigation
10 determine whether enlarge tonsils
and sdenoids in children or the. re-
novsl Of the tonsils and adenoids have
any connection with the disease.
Seek Blood Of Cured Adults.
Commissioner Emerson has Endorsed
the organization of citizens commit
Zee 70 conduct the campaign TO obtain
the blood of recovered paralysis
PATIENTS for making immune blood
serum. A letter to persons known 70
have recovered from the disease IS be-
ing prepared by DR.. Charles 7. Boil
dram, director of the Bureau of Pub
lie Health Education, and will be sent
out in a few days.
"The department is prepared to send
physicians 20 the homes OF persons
who have recovered from the disease,
said Dr.. Emerson. "The operation OF
drawing blood is painless and requires
but few moments"
Fourteen ounces Of blood were drawn
by DR.. Abraham Zingher from the
veins OF two persons at the willard
Parker Hospital yesterday. One was
Mrs. Francis B. Calder, of 1879 ETst
Thirty-ninth Street. who is nifty years
cid and had paralysis when she was
three years old She gave six ounces.
Eight ounces were taken from a. NJ.
Desegang, twenty-nine years old, OF
20 Wildwood Street Brooklyn, who had
the disease when he was two years o!d'
Az the Kingston Avenue Hospital, H.
Brooklyn. Dr. Joseph {. RegaA drew
two and one-half ounces Of boz from
Rubin LYMAN. Of f42 South Ninth
Street. Brooklyn. Hyman's blood will
be used in the treatment of his eight
months old son. who is in the hospital.
Frank J.. Bowling. Acting Mayor,
said yesterday he will Introduce
resolution in the Board OF Aldermen
in September. carrying an appropria-
ton OF probably $4,000, TO be expenc
cd by the Department of Health and
Public Charities in the after-care o;
paralysis victims. Efforts 10 raise
money for TOYS and braces for con
vslescents and discharged patients
we're begun yesterday by a committee
Of men prominent in the textile trades'
Benedict Erstein, treasurer OF the
committee, Is preparing a letter of ap-
peal, which will be distributed TO the
textile manufacturers and dealers. The
fund for the after-care of children
vas increased 10 S10,816.79 yesterday
BY new contributions totalling S35<.
Among the contributions was $500 from
The citizens Of Lenox. Mass.
Seventy new cases of paralysis were
ohcially reported TO the State Depart
nent Of Health at Albany yesterday