New-York tribune., 1916-07-12
Outside Experts Asked
to Help-City Has
1875 New Cases.
100000 PRIZE,
OFFER FOR CURE
Health Forces Confer This
Morning-Congress to
Give S135,000.

With 1875 new cases and 81 deaths
-erorted yesterday in the sweep OF IN
fsn,ile paralysis through greater New
York. Mayor Mitchell and DR.. Haven
rnsrson. City Health Commissioner,
b.rsn concentration OF the forces
srbtinc 10 check the scourge that has
now taken toll of 27O lives and made
127s children helpless.
OF the new cases brought TO the at
,e,,ion Of the Health Department 1856
are IN Brooklyn. IA are in Manhattan.
l3 IN Queens, in Richmond and Z IN
The Bronx. The great majority OF
them are in districts already infected,
with the exception Of one in Seaside
Avenue. Rockaway Beach, and a few
other scattered cases.
Advisory Meeting To-day.
Ar,ost coincident with the tabulat-
nc Of this large increase IN cases and
deaths Naor Mitchell announced that
.bs conference Of the Medical Advisory
Rosrd. originally scheduled for to-mor-
-ou Will be held this morning in the
c+v Hall Besides the members Of the
hoard the conference will De attended
hv heads Of various city departments
ard bv noted medical specialists.
7. is understood that one Of the
Mayors principal purposes IN ealing
tho meeting is to determine whether
the outside medical experts may be
able 10 offer suggestions helpful to the
Health Department and the United
State Public Health Service in their
work Of combating the disease. Physi-
ci,r. uho will attend include DR.. simon
Flevner Of the Rockefeller Institute
and Drs l. Emmet Holt. 6. r. Butler
". James. H. NJ. Biggs, William NJ.
Polk T. NJ. Pruden. Abraham Jacob,
John McCorkle. Francis c. Wood and A.
\ Dotv. Another conference Of physi-
clans will be held at the Academy Of
Medicine tomorrow night, when they
will be addressed by DR.. Flexner.
Reward fOT
In Washington yesterday Secretary
Of the Treasury William G. McAdoo
asked Congress 10 appropriate $4,000
70 Be used by the United States Pub
lie Health Service in fighting the epi-
deric in New York and to prevent its
spread 10 other states.
Mr. McAdoo's request reached the
House Of Representatives about the
same time that Representative Isaac
ciocel Of New York. introduced q reso-
p.ion apprapriating 100000 to be
siven as a reward to the person who
succeeds in developing q cure for in
fantile paralysis
II is expected that the appropria-
tions. or at least that requested by Mr..
McAdoo. will be rushed through both
Houses Immediately. inasmuch as unit;
'he money is available research ana
interstate preventive work Will be
practically at a stsndstill, with the eN-
ceptiOn OF the experiments being con-
Quoted - the Rock efeller Institute and
at the city meteorological laboratories,
IN East Sixteenth Street. At the lat
Ter, Dr. II. l.. Abramson has inoculated
one monkey and a number Of rabbits
with the paralysis virus.
Dr. J. p. Lcake and Or. c. II. Lsven-
%. Of the Public Health Service. who
are in New York 10 fight the plague,
hold conferences Yesterday with Dr.
Simon Flexner al the Rockefeller In
siitute and with Or. Charles r. Bold
tsn AZ the Department Of Health.
eve must wait and plan until we get
material % work with" said DR.. Leake
8, the conclusion of the conference
with Dr. Bolduan. eve can do little
until We yet money and monkeys with
which 10 conduct the proper expert
msntf and take the proper preventive
measures"
Warning Against Panic.
The determination TO hasten the
great medical conference, out oil when
Is expected TO evolve definite plan
'or preventive and experimental work,
vas reached by the Mayor. following a
haii-nour discussion of the situation
WIN Dr. Emerson. In announcing ms
,,n'ention Of calling the conference, the
mayor issued a statement IN which ne
declared that the city health authori-
YES and the agencies cooperating with
mem appear 10 have the situation well
N N hand. and expressed confidence that
.ne Epidemic will be checked without
she necessity Of calling in outside
I,5orces. such as the Red Cross, to aid.
ne also, as did Dr. Emerson, urged the
people not 70 become panic-stricken.
The Department Of Health is do
ing all that il can with the scientlhc
knowledge that there is available TO-
gay as 70 the means of fighting tins
,hing and preventing it's spread" said
Mayor Mitchell. 1--WE are going even
neyond the point that is dictated by
ne knowledge of the disease by at
uenng ell unclesnly conditions in the
suse's as we'll as in the home. The