New-York tribune., 1916-07-19
All Leaving State
Must Show Clean
Bills of Health
GAIN IN CASES
AND 26 MORE DIE
Ouly Official Certificates
To Be Accepted-Check
Predicted.

~. report yesterday Of l2l new
....s and twenty-six deaths spurred
=. city TO new efforts to check the
..~scss Of infantile paralysis. Strict
...r,ntine will be established to-day
,,lsss the plans Of DR.. Charles H.
p.,l. senior surgeon Of the United
S,,.s. Public Health Service, miscarry'
M nerson will be allowed to leave
,be city for any point outside the state
v,bou; certificate from the CITY
Health Department showing freedom
from any vestige Of the disease ana
also that there is no trace Of paralysis
a, Of sny other contagious disease IN
the travellers home.
New Health Aid System.
new system of issuing health GER
,ideates will be inaugurated, probably
,o.sav. Complaint has been received
bv Dr.. Haven Emerson, City Health
Commissioner. of the method hitherto
,mployed-the issuance, namely, OF
ur,ifcates by private practitioners
Certificates in the future will be issued
70 applicants who call in person Tor
eSaminstion at the Health Department
Offices. in Centre Street, or at the
branch Offices in the five boroughs
Quitting the city without these cer-
tj6cates will, according to DR.. Banks's
plan. be quite impossible. Government
surgeons will be stationed at all rail-
road depots, and all persons buying
tickets for points outside Of the state
will be compelled TO produce health
certificates.
Persons travelling to points within
the state" said DR.. Banks yesterday
do not need certificates from the
United States Public Health officers.
Autoists Also Under Ban.
Those leaving the state must first
obtain a certificate from the city Board
az Health that the disease does not
,Yist on their premises. This must De
attained on the day of proposed de-
parture or the day before at the latest
When the ticket is purchased AT the
depot the traveller will then go TO the
government surgeon on duty at the
Station 10 obtain from him the out-ol-
state card Of Identification;
Persons using some other form OF
CONVEYANCE than railroad traIns-that
is, automobiles, horses or trolleys-
NAV apply for a certificate directly 10
the government health officers, room
l25, Postoffiee Building.
Despite yesterdays increase IN cases
Of the plague, Health Commissioner
Emerson still insisted that there was
no cause for general alarm.
ave feel very much encouraged,
said the Commissioner, because we
believe the high water mark o., OF tne
epidemic has been reached; we al
ways expect the largest NUMBER OF ne"
cases OF the week in the TUESDAY re-
ports, which cover all cases from ~
Thai has been true in all epidemics.
Il should he noted, however, that the
number of new cases reported To-Day
is seventv-four fewer than the NUMBER
reported last Tuesday, and that there
are six fewer deaths"
Total of Cases Is Now 2,lS5.
OF the new cases reported yesterday
s. were in Brooklyn, 10 in klchmono'
l3 in Queens, 7 in Manhattan and IN
The Bronx. The deaths listed were
70 in Brooklyn, 2 each in Manhattan
end Richmond. and in Queens. The
total number of cases is now placed
al PISS by the Department Of Health,
this figure including ten cases when
should have been reported Monday, but
which we're omitted from that days
lists. OF this number the great ma
lon,y are infants ranging from two to
i've years, but twelve being over nj
Teen years Of age.
Addresses and ages of those IN
whom the onset of the disease was
noticed at various times from Febru-
ary 10 July l3 were given out yes
terdsy by the Department of Health.
They are: Man, twenty-three years
old, No. 225 West Fifteenth Street;
man, twenty-three, No. 6 Second
Place, Brooklyn; woman, twenty, 1S2
Saekett Street, Brooklyn; boy, seven
teen, 1856 Thirty-ninth Street. Brook
Yn woman, nineteen, 292 East Sew
enth Street; boy, fifteen, 230 Forty
ninth Street. Brooklyn; boy, fifteen,
Isl Decatur Street, Brooklyn; boy. fif-
nen: S29 Stanton Street; boy, fifteen,
700 forty-hfth Street, Brooklyn; wom-
an, thirty, 7,444 Amboy Place. Totten-
vie, Staten Island; no sex given.
nnity-two, 3ss Little Malbone Street,
DDf'ookiyn; woman, twenty-five, st.
,tlncents Hospital, Richmond. died
yTuIy 10; woman, thirty-seven, 337 East
'"en'y-eighth Street.
DR.. Banks Ready to Act.
with the action Of the House of
representatives yesterday in quickly
t,'ssng bill carrying an appropria-
ION OF slS5,000 TO finance the campaign
ne United States Public Health
,HIce ~. IN the campaign against infan-
cS. paralysis. 1t is probable that Or.
"a'ies Z. Banks, senior surgeon, in
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