New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
Seizure of Infant in Queens
Starts Agitation for
New Law.
26 NEW CASES
RECORD FOR DAY
Children Excluded from
Schools by Mistake,
Emerson Says.

While Lawrence T. Gresser was
busy preparing affidsvits yesterday TO
be presented to the Supreme Court IN
support OF his application for an orde ?
TO compel the Health Department TO
show cause why Robert Anderson, the
infant who was taken 20 the Queens
boro Hospital for Contagious Diseases
as an infantile paralysis victim by
"raiding" party OF health officers anc
policemen, should not be returned 70
the home of his mother, Mrs. Anton
Anderson. of $50 New York Avenue,
Jamaica. two organizations were pre-
pairing to take up the mothers hght
for her child.
One Of these was the hillside Asso-
citation. when decided to request AS
semblyman George +. Polhemus, Of ia
maica. to introduce a legislative bill
amending laws governing the powers
of the Board of Health, particularly
that section authorizing it to enter
nrivate house and forcibly remove
patient
Womens Organization Aids.
The other organization which has
entered the controversy, Is the women ;
Citizens League of Queens, OF when
Mrs. Alfred J. Emo is chairman; mrs,
Emo sent letter TO Mayor Mitche!
seeking an appointment at wnlch' II
granted, he will be presented WIN the
rapidly growing petition signed by ia
raica mothers, demanding an lnVesti-
pa.ion Of the case. Mrs. Emo also
prepared a report of the case, when
She will submit TO the Mayor. 80,
Twenty-siX new cases OF lntantlle
naraIvsis and five deaths were reported
ty the Board of Health du/ng the day;
This was an increase OF six cases ana
a decrease OF six deaths as compared
with tho record Of Tuesday.
According to a report from Albany.
the record of the State Department or
Health showed one death from the
endemic upstate and thirty-six new
cases. Tuesdays report was one
death and forty cases. Yesterday 2
death was at MIddletown. Orange
County. The new cases appeared IN
the following counties;
Oswego. six: Madison and Onondaga'
four each; 81. Lawrence, sullivan,
Ulster and Duchess, three each; war
70, and Orange, two each. and Rens-
selaer. Chenango, Jefferson, Nassau
Oneida and Columbia. one each. Since
tho outbreak of the epidemic IN June,
there have been $50 deaths and $40
cases reported outside of New YORK
City.
DR.. Emerson Pleased.
Dr. Emerson expressed himself as
pleased that the average so TAR thlS
week has been under nineteen cases a
dav in the greater city. lie SAID tnat
between 5000 and 5000 children VINO
were excluded from the schools by the
health officers through misunder-
standing. will be permitted to enter.
These are children who spent the sum
mer in Queens. Brooklyn and Rlch-
mond within the city limits.
For the first time since the epidemlc
began, the Swinburne Island Hospital,
which has handled the cases OF staten
Island residents, reported no poliomy-
elitis patients.
Twenty-Five new cases were reported
10 the State Board of Health OF Ne"
Jersey. making a total of 3,59i cases
reported in that state. The new cases
were. Relleville ad Summit, four
cases each; Newark. Dover, Roxbury
Township and Plainfeld, two cases
each: Ridgefeld Park. Chester Town
shin. Camden. Haddon Heights, Nut
lev Matawan. Hanover Township, FL
mer Borough and Somerville, one each.
The names and addresses OF the new
cases reported TO the Department OF
Health here were as follows:
New Cases-Borough of Manhattan.
1871 Avenue B, 125 East Fourth Street,
319 West Twenty-ifth Street, 237 East
Seventv-third Street, 34l West Forty
ninth Street. 1858 Amsterdam Avenue,
S55 West End Avenue, 81 West 135th
Street, 1746 First Avenue, PA West
Hath Street.
Deaths-Borough Of Manhattan.
44s East 117th Street, 81 East
Eightv-frst Street, 345 West Forty
ninth Street.
New Cases-Borough Of Bronx.
23e East 18TH Street, ISL East l63d
Street, 400 Gun Hill Road, 1912 Milford
Place.
Death-Borough Of Bronx.
1912 College Avenue.
New Cases-BorOugh of Brooklyn.
As Vernon Avenue, 1877 Harrison Ave
nue.. 635A Decatur Street. 1873 Park
Place, II North First Street, $3.50 Powell
Street. 65l Vanderbilt Avenue, 40 Henry
Street, Kings County Hospital l2).
Deaths-Borough of Brooklyn.
None.
New Cases-BOrough of Queens.
2Os Lobe Avenue, Jamaica; SO Hyatt
Avenue, Winfield; Willetts Point Road,
Whitestone.
Death-Borough of Queens.
272 Barclay Street, Astoria.
New Cases-Borough of Richmond.
None.
Deaths-Borough of Richmond.
None.
THIRD AV. EMPLOYEES
RACK AS LIMIT EXPIRES