The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-17
SIX PHOSPHATE
 WITH PARALYSIS
 IN BRIDGEPORT
Physicians Find Half a Doz- en Undoubted Cases of
 Poiomyelitis Here.
EXPERT ANNOUNCES
 DRASTIC MEASURES
Children Under 10 Years of Age to Have Their Ac-
 tivities Limited.

 infantile paralysis today, as far as can be learned from the conflicting reports made by the various officials in charge of the plague fight.
 Those known to be ill with polio myelitis are:
 Tanaski, Mary, aged 20 months, IF Railroad court.
 Griffith, Thomas, aged two years and one half, 1277 Pembroke street.
 Sheridan, John, aged 30. 95 Harriet street.
 Bechleda, John, aged 20 months, 250 Church street.
 Fullem, Edith, aged seven, 196 Union avenue.
 Rynne, David w., aged three years and one half, A89 Main street. The first four of these cases have been querantined at Hillside home. The latter two are under quarantine at home.
 Six is believed to be the correct number of positive cases. Dr. Abra- ham Sophian, the expert from the Rockefeller Institute, who has charge of the plague fight here, estimated this morning that there were five, but this afternoon Dr. Mcclellan said that the Bechleda case is a serious one and was pronounced poliomyelitis last night by Dr. c. N. Haskell. At Hillside home, the figures agreed with neither of these.
 Benjamin Douglas Fairchild, Jr., aged 12 years, native of Newtown, is the first victim in this neighborhood. He died yesterday. Dr. George A Smith of Stepney pronounced his a case of poliomyelitis. The Fairchild child had been living in Brooklyn, but went to his old home in Newtown for the summer. He was buried today in Lakeview cemetery.
 Alice Fairchild,5 five years old, sis ter of Benjamin FairchiId. was isolated today in house near the family sum- mer home in Newtown. Dr. Arthur Smith of Stepney, thinks hers an abortive case of poliomyelitis. ! Two more cases under observation at Newtown, where it is suspected paralysis is spreading. The children are from Jewish settlement in New York.
 Of the six positive cases in this
  The Fullem child'ss case Is consider leaving the child, who is convalescing today the case is unique.
 Dr. Benjamin B. Finkelstone, Dr. Joseph H. Beaudry, Dr. John F. Flynn and Dr. Giovanni Formichella were appointed today by the health board to aid in the plague fight They will be called in to consult on suspected cases, to see that quarantines are es- tablished and respected and to keep a double check on the persons coming to this city from quarantined dis tricts. X
 Four physicians who speak foreign languages will be named by the med ical society to assist in the work. The Bechleda case was removed to Hillside home this noon. The Sheri- dan case was taken there last night and the Tanaski case Saturday night. Dr. Sophian said today that no case removed to Lakeview home, whether suspected or positive. would be in the neighborhood of another case. Each one is isolated, he said, with no exposure to infection from another.
 Dr. Sophian declared positively this morning that the death of Frank Mo Cormick at the Isolation hospital, was due to spinal meningitis. It was first suspected Mccormick might be a paralysis victim.
 Drastic measures were instituted today by Dr. Sophian in the efforts to prevent the spread of txoliomyelitis. With the sanction of the board o1 health he announced that:
 No child under 10 years of age will be allowed to attend the moving picture shows, beginning
 today.
 No child under 10 will be al-'
 lowed to attend the "1O1 Ranch | tomorrow.
 No child under 10 will be a1-
 lowed to enter the department
 stores of the city.
 No child under 10 will be a1-
 lowed to enter the city without a health certificate from the town
 whence he or she came.
 No Sunday school picnics will
 be allowed if the police can pre-
 vent them.
 No expectorating will be allow
 ed in the streets, even in the
 highway, under penalty of arrest.
 No expectorating will be, allow
 ed at the railroad station under
 penalty of arrest.
 Owners of restaurants and
 boarding houses will be instruct
 ed to have dishes washed at least
 five minutes in running water or
 boiled.
 Proprietors of drug stores and
 other places where summer
 drinks are sold will be instructed to see that the clerks hands are
 scrupu1ously clean.
 No child or adult person will
 be allowed to swim in or bathe in
 the Henry street basin or other
 place where sewage is present.
 pr. Sophian said that those conn., batting the epidemic here will take one new sanitation step each day Were beginning to get things sys- ematized now," he declared
 Dr. Sophian called Director of Pub lie Works Jacob A. Courtade into his office today and conferred on the mat (Continued on Pare B