New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-06


of Health. while new cases recorded
totalled only thirteen, compared with
twenty-three for Wednesday. In The
Bronx no deaths and no new cases
were reported.
Health Commissioner Haven Emer-
son testified yesterday at a hearing be-
fore Justice Garretson, in the Supreme
Court, Brooklyn, that Robert Anderson,
nineteen months old, who was forcibly
removed from the home of his parents
in Jamaica on September % and placed
in the Queensborough Hospital. was
undoubtedly suffering from infantile
paralysis. Dr. Emerson advised against
removing the child to his home. al
though he is convalescing at present.
declaring that he was uncertain as to
whether the boys parents would live
up to the health regulations.
Infantile paralysis patients are now
being discharged from hospitals in
Queens at the rate of fifty a day. ac-
cording to a statement issued yester-
day by the Henry Street Settlement,
which has three nurses visiting victims
in the borough to see that they re-
ceive proper orthopedic treatment dur
ing convalescence. &C..
There is only one orthopedic clinic
in Queens-that a. the Jamaica HOS
pital-and the need of such treatment
is so great that the settlement is ask
ing for donations TO support TWO nurses
A gift of 81 200 from Mrs. Averell Har-
riman assures the salary of one nurse
for wear, and another anonymous do
nation of $500 provides for another
nurse for three months.
Fewer Cases Upstate.
Twenty-three upstate cases OF
paralvsis-nine less than on Wednes-
day-and one death were reported 10
the State Health Department yester-
dav. The death was at Ira, Cayuga
County. and the new cases were IN
Westchester, four; Onondaga, Suffolk
and Oswego, three each; st. Lawrence,
Tioga and Ulster, two each, and Ot-
sego. Cayuga, Sullivan and Orange,
one each.
New Jersey reports yesterday
showed a marked decrease, only fif-
teen cases being reported. There
were, in Newark, three; Jersey City,
Rridgeton, Trenton and Paterson. two
each: Northampton, Woodbine, Ewes
ham Township and Elizabeth, one
each.
-Four cases were reported in Con-
necticut. bringing the total number
of cases recorded in that state up
TO 1855.
In Massachusetts, twenty-four new
cases were reported. Surgeon l.. d.
Frick. of the Federal Bureau Of Pub
lie Health Service, who has been In
vestigating the epidemic in Massachu-
sets. especially at Holyoke, returned
10 Washington yesterday.
New cases and deaths yesterday were
reported from the following addresses:
New Cases-Borough of Manhattan.
336 East Thirty-ninth Street, 2l48
Second Avenue, 2013 First Avenue, Alb
West Thirty-frst Street. 1916 First Ave-
nue., 1877 East Forty-ffth Street 1.-TWO
cases., 519 East Seventy-eighth Street.
Deaths-Borough of Manhattan.
305 East Fortieth Street, l31 East
Forthwith Street, 239 West Fifteenth
Street.
New Cases-Borough of Brooklyn.
326 East Seventeenth Street, 261 Mof-
fatt Street.
Deaths-Borough Of Brooklyn-None.
New Cases-Borough Of Queens.
700 Eleventh Averue, Long Island
City; Sherwood and Hayes avenues,
Bellaire Station.
Death-Borough of Queens.
700 Eleventh Avenue, Long Island
City.
New Case-Borough Of Richmond.
1873 Myrtle Avenue, West New Brigh-
ton.
Deaths-Borough of Richmond None.