New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-03

Total cases-s.1ls; total deaths,
fantile paralysis reported viii be 50
fcw as 20 cause very little, Z any. con-
ccru. from q public health standpoint.
The Commissioner refused 20 COM
ment Yesterday upon an article IN " Inc
Net.ca. Journal p which Dr. ,. j.
AeItzcr. Of the Rockefeller Institute
o. gued against the treatment or paraIy-
Sis patients by the auto-lnoculatlon
method. OF the withdrawal OF thc
spinal auid and its injection into the
muscles Of the same patient. DIT. Melt
yer contends that this method IS HNeiY
90 increase the amount OF paralysis
poison 10 the patients body, ana tha'
- E an experiment which should not
De ,~ed upon human beings until y
had been proved OF value by tests upon
animals.
Commissioner Emerson said. how
over. that the use of this method o.
treatment mas been discontinued IN the
rosritals of the Department OF Health,
although 70 is reported 20 be IN use
sill 10 some private hospitals. The
reason for the discOntInEance the
Commissioner declared 20 be the fact
that 20 did not appear 20 be suitable
fer patients who had been suffering
from the disease for several days. He
denied -na- T. was harmful N any way
and said the department mad no reason
ta believe that any patient had been in-
ilrcd by the use Of the method.
Charities ASK 100000.
In letter 70 acting Mayor Frank L.
DowEnC Yesterday Henry G. Wright,
u,putv COMM ssioner OF Charities, es-
Inmates that his department Will need
100000 90 perform its share OF the
after treatment Of paralysis victims.
About $4,000. the letter said, would be
needed for devices and apparatus 10 be
used In the clinics. of which the De
partment Of Charities viii establish
.h,ec-one AZ the Kings County Hos
r.ta.. another az the Greenpoint Hos
Uital and another on BlackweA's Island
Comm ssIoner Emerson received q
check for $1,000 yesterday from An
drew Carnegie. 70 be applied 20 the
fund 90 purchase braces for crippled
children. The check came from Maine,
where NJ and Mrs. Carnegie are
spending their vacation. Besides the
Carnegie gift. other contributions to-
failing S269517 were received yester-
DAY. bringing the fund 20 f26,541.l6.
Reports OF fortv-slX new cases Of
infantile paralysis and one death from
the disease n the state outside New
York City we're received by the State
Department o. Health yesterday. The
death was reported from Port Chester.
The new cases were distributed as fol-
lows: Skaneateles. New Rochelle,
Yo1kers and HYDE Park. three each,
Narcellus. Fayetteville. Mexico, White
Plains. LynbrooS and Riverhesd. two
each, Larchmont. Stafford, Auburn,
Port Chester, Campbell, Mohawk Valley.
Mohawk. BronxVlle, Tuxedo, Mount
Vernon. Utica, Hampstead, Great Neck,
Bethpage. Good Ground. Tarrytown,
El5r'dgc. Balevtown, Greenwood Lake,
Highland. Milton and West Shokan.
Jersey Cases Decrease.
The State Department OF Health Of
New Jersey received reports OF forty
SIX new cases In that state yesterday,
as compared with sixty-two on Friday.
Throughout the state there are now
2.7S7 cases. Yesterdays new cases are:
Twelve Newark; FIVE in Jersey City;
three each ln Atlantic City, Wood
bridge and Salem; two each In Hsddon-
feid Trvington, Trenton and Union
Township. and Upper Penns Neck, in
Salem County; one each IN Alpine Bor-
ough. Logan Township. in Gloucester
County; New Prov dence Township, IN
Union County: Hashrouck Heights
Chester Township, m Burlington Coun-
r.; Gloucester City. Secaucus, Dover,
Hanover Township, in Morris County,
and Paterson.
DR.. Joseph J. Craven, OF the Jersey
City Health Board, received letter
+N.s
schools Of Jersey City would remain
closed until the epidemic has abated.
After the state health Offices a.
Trenton had closed for the day reports
were received Of FIVE new cases m
Orange. Four Of these were reported In
-he family OF ?. J. Burns, the children
being stricken almost al the same tirre.
They have been removed 10 the Essex
County Isolation Hospital
John pims0n. chief Of police or Pat
e-eor. e. j.. returned home yesterday
from Rockaway Beach, where he has
been spending his vacation, and vas
Immediately placed under a TWO weeks
quarantine by the Paterson health au-
thorities. The rulings % the Health
Board are that any person entering
Paterson from an infected district must
remain in his home TWO weeks, and
EoNhaNaE DtdlN IoINto NNNfl nav
des gnation.
The addresses at which rev cases
OF paralysis we're found IN New York
City yesterday are as follows:
New Cases-Manhattsn.
1ee Ridge Street. % Grove Street,
1-0 East Fourth Street 337 East Twen-
ty-G-st Street. 90 West Ninth street,
sl3 West Twenty-nlnth Street, -
sixth Avenue. 404 Eighth Avenue, sos
Trr-1 Avenue, SIG West Twenty-ninth
street. 1875 First Avenue. ll3 Eas:
-evonty-ff,h Street, 428 East Fifty
MN Street. 344 East Forty-ninth
street. Z15 West Eighty-second Street,
,07 West Forty-ninth Street, 556 West
re-4v-third Street. AIS West Fifty-sec-
nd Street 944 Columbus Avenue, 60i
West roth Street. 346 Lenox Avenue.
1855 Third Avenue. 1873 East lllth
Street Z40 East l24th Street, l245
PARK Avenue. 6s Fast l02d Street and
1886 First Avenue.
Decentralization.
225 West Sixty-second Street, % =
Naceougal Street. 3l9 East Sixty-ffth
street. 44s West Fifty-ffth Street, l9l
Orchard Street. 100 East ll4th Street,
287 Yves. l42d Street
New Cause.-The Bronx.
800 East 18TH Street, 1172 Wyatt
Street, sos Trinton Avenue, 547 last