New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-31
Health Physicians Plan a
Special Lecture Course
Before Institute.
CRIPPLES MAY GET
$250,000 FROM CITY
After Care Committee Has
Big Fund-Appeals for
Blood Fail.

An increase Of sixteen in the number
of new cases OF infantile paralysis and
a decrease of ten in deaths were shown
in the reports of the Department Of
Health yesterday, compared with Tues
days figures. The new cases were 80
and the deaths %.
Lectures on preventable and infec-
tious diseases, with especial reference
TO infantile paralysis. will be delivered
by physicians of the Department Of
Health before the Teachers Institute,
which will begin its sessions when the
public school teachers report for duty
on September II. Besides the lectures
special series Of health bulletins is
to be issued by the department for the
benefit of teachers.
DR.. Charles f. Bolduan, director of
the Bureau of Public Health Educa-
ton, said yesterday that this action
was prompted by request from DR.. C..
Ward Champion. director of physical
education of the Board of Education.
At the opening session of the institute,
in the Washington Irving High School,
Health Commissioner Haven Emerson,
DR.. Bolduan and DR.. S. Josephine
Baker, director of the Bureau Of Child
Hygiene, will deliver the preliminary
lectures The teachers will be shown
the necessity of urging cleanliness and
personal hygiene upon their pupils.
Cost of After Care.
The cost of the after care of the
paralysis patients now undergoing
treatment in the hospitals-providng
them with treatment and the necessary
braces was estimated at $4,000 yes
terday by Dr.. Thomas J. Riley, super
intendent Of the Brooklyn Bureau Of
Charities. in a statement read before
a meeting Of the General Committee.
on After Care. Dr. Riley estimated
transportation of the children to hos
pitfalls and dispensaries at $4,000; care
of convalescents in hospitals, $4,000;
dispensary treatments, S10S,000, and
social service work keeping track Of
children and seeing that they are
treated, SS.940.
To meet these expenses the Depart
ment of Health is collecting a fund Of
5000. Most Of this will be used TO
purchase braces for the children. Al
most $4,000 has been obtained. 1t is
believed that another $4,000 will come
from the various charitable organiza-
lions which have become interested in
the work. With these funds and the
equipment and services offered by the
various hospitals and dispensaries,
Commissioner Emerson believes that all
the children can be cared for without
aid from the city government.
The Commissioner expressed this be
lief yesterday in a letter to Acting
Mayor Frank L. Bowling, and declared
there will be no need to call upon the
city for funds. Mr.. Bowling announced,
however. that when the Board of Esti-
mate meets September j he will intro
duce a resolution appropriating $780,
600. instead Of the $4,000 which he
originally intended to ask for. TO be
expended in the after care of the paral-
ysis victims.
81 not only believe that the city
should provide for the after care said
Mr.. Bowling, "but ! believe the work
should be done by competent surgeons
and nurses in a systematic manner. All
Of this will cost money, and 1t must be
remembered that most Of the parents
of these children are poor.
"The lists published daily show that
the majority of the cases are IN the
poorer sections Of the city. Now, is
the City of New York to ignore these
poor little cripples, or is it TO play the
Good Samaritan and heal their wounds
say it is a good investment TO heal
their wounds, for il means the rearing
of so many sturdy citizens instead of
deformed ones
Plan to Aid Children.
At Yesterdays meeting Of the Cen
eral Committee on After Care the stu
alton was thoroughly thrashed out An
executive committee was formed, 10
consist of DR.. Riley, DR.. Donald +. BaX-
ter, O. II. Bartine, Miss Bessie Ammer-
man, DR.. Walter Truslow and DR..
Jacques c. Rushmore. These members
were authorized TO add six more names
TO the committee The Offices of the
committee are in $50 Fourth Avenue.
Senior Surgeon Charles +. Banks, Of
the United States Public Health Ser
vice, sent Dr. VI. II. Foster to Philadel-
phia yesterday to start a system of in
spection of interstate travel similar TO
that which is being enforced in New
York. DR.. Foster was accompanied by
twelve surgeons who have been on duty
in New York, DR.. Banks believing that
the situation here has so improved that
they can be spared.
Dr.. Foster and his assistants will pay
particular attention 20 travel going
South and Southwest, as 1t is feared
that unless proper measures arc taken
there will be an epidemic in those sec
tons
Response TO the appeals Of the De
partment of Health and hospitals for
former paralysis patients to give blood
for the preparation Of immune serum
continues TO be one Of the most disap-
pointing features to the physicians VITO
are battling the plague. Only very
few ounces Of blood have been obtained
within the last few days, quantity far
below the 100 ounces required ever
dav TO properly treat the children
So great is the need for blood that
DR. Samuel Fairness, IN charge of the
BROOKLYN serum station, suggested yes
terday 20 Lewis l.. Delafield, chairman
of the Citizens Committee 20 Obtain
Serum. that instead of sending letters
the committee arrange 20 call per.
sonally upon each former paralysis vic
tim whose name is on the lists OF the
department Or. Fairness believes that
many Of the former patients will agree
10 give their blood if approached per
sonally.
Need for Serum Shown.
at is almost impossible 70 under
stand" said Or. Fairness yesterday,
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