New-York tribune., 1916-07-28
Physician Says DR.. Meltzer's
Adrenalin Treatment Works
Successfully on so Patients.

menL yesterday, ueSttaSS VI
cases and four deaths from the day be-
fore. Brooklyn had ninety of the new
cases, Manhattan thirty-one and Queens
eighteen. The Bronx and Richmond
each reported six.
DR.. Emerson made the suggestion
that the conference be held in letter
to Mayor Mitchell. This was laid be-
fore the Board of Estimate yesterday,
and, by a unanimous vote, S3,O0O was
set aside TO meet the expenses OF those
who will be asked 70 attend the con-
ference. Their names will be made
public in a day or two, and the con-
ference will be held at the earliest
possible date.
Asks Invitation of Leaders.
"The opinion of capable physicians
and scientists in this city and else
where is to the effect that advance IN
our knowledge of the disease, infanti.e
paralysis, might be obtained as the re-
suit Of a conference in this city during
the present epidemic Of leaders in sci
entifc thought and investigation IL
this country" wrote Commissioner En-
erson. There are from fifteen to
twenty men from OnlCdkO " DOoNOH ih
the medical centres who have made i'm
rortant contributions 20 various phases
Of preventive medicine. | believe their
presence here in New York for tw)
or three days would result in oganized
effortsr in various laboratories to sup
pement the work now being done un-
der the Committee of Research in this
city.
81 request your permission to invite
these leaders, from whom we have
right TO expect substantial suggestions
and constructive work, to come to New
York at the expense of the city. |
know of no way in which more val
liable opinions can be obtained, and |
think the expense of this gathering
might properly be betrayed from the
emergency fund authorized by you to
control and prevent this disease, OF
from the contingency fund of the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
can approximate estimate of cost o.
travelling expenses and hotel accom-
modations for those to be invited Will
be sent if your approval Of the general
plan is received"
The Commissioner estimated tn,
cost at about $4,000.
Hospitals Have 1867 Patients.
There are now 1867 paralysis pa
tients in the hospitals. with 65l empty
beds available. Patients are kept iso-
lated for eight weeks, though recov-
cry may already have taken place, be-
cause Of the possibility that they may
carry the disease. In about three
weeks discharges from the paralysis.
wards will become numerous.
DR.. Edward J. Birmingham, execu-
tive surgeon OF the New York Throat,
Nose and Lung Hospital, has submitted
a second report to the Health Depart
ment, in which he states his belief
that good results are being obtained
in the treatment of paralysis patients
in the hospital by the use of adrenalin.
Commissioner Emerson and depart
ment physicians declared a week ago
that the treatment Of a comparatively
small number of cases chowed nothing
conclusive as TO its value as a cure.
In his latest report DR.. Birmingham
saws: "Since the beginning Of the epl-
demic we have received siIty-two pa
tients. Six of these were admitted in
a moribund condition and died within
a few hours. Six were placed IN the
isolation ward after examination. and
the disease has not yet developed.
Fifty are now under treatment, which
consists Of general hygienic measures,
fresh air in abundance, particular care
Of the body, bathing, manlcurlng and
frequent changes of linen.
Praises DR.. Meltzer.
Intraspinous injections of adrenalin
are administered, as suggested by DR..
s. J. Meltzer Of the Rockefeller In
stitute. We feel that his theory has
been sustained. We will not say
proved, because fifty cases cannot prove
such an important matter. We believe
that no small degree Of the success we
have had in the treatment of this dis
ease has been due to DR.. Meltzer. Fifty
cases have had these intraspinal in
jections administered every six hours.
day and night. We have had no i'll
effects, and the improvement in all has
been so marked that all acute symptoms
have subsided in thirty-fve cases. ana
to-day only fifteen cases, including new
admissions. received injection"
Three cases of paralysis were re-
ported yesterday from Fort Hamilton.
The victims are Bessie, aged sixteen;
Edward. six, and Catherine. two, chill
dren Of William VI. Cline, an engineer
IN the Coast Artillery Corps. They
we're taken i'll Friday and removed to
the Kingston Avenue Hospital Wednes-
cay.
The health authorities are puzzled as
10 the way in which the children con-
tracted the disease. They had not been
of the Fort Hamilton reservation since
June /, and a strict quarantine against
children entering or leaving the reser-
vation has been maintained since July
!. Adults have gone TO and fro, but
il is not thought probable that the
paralysis germ was carried by them.
There are 100 children at the fort,
and $50 boys of the National School
Camp Association are in camp on the
reservation. The camp has been quar-
antined.
Children's Problem Puzzles
Numerous children leaving New York
City for points outside the state are
still being delayed, because Health De-
partment and United States Public
Health Service certificates had not been
procured. Wednesday evening many
who had been brought to the city for
the day from New Jersey or Connecti-
cut were unable 70 return home until
Health Department officials who were
summoned issued certificates.
These will not ordinarily be issued 20
children not residents Of New York.
The department yesterday issued
warning that certificates for children
coming here for the day should be OBJ
tained from health officials at the place
Of residence and be shown Federal sur