Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-07
City, State and Federal Au-
thorities of New York Fight
ing Disease UnavaiIingIy.
TWENTY-FIVE MORE DIE
IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Epidemic Shows Little Signs Of
Abatement, Eighty-Seven New
Cases Being Reported.

| NEW YORK, July with city, state
and federal authorities lighting the dis
ease, the epidemic of infantile paral-
ysis showed little signs of abatement
today. During the twenty-four hours
ended at 10 o'clock this morning twen-
| ty-two more children died. Nineteen of
this number succumbed In Brooklyn.
There were eighty-seven new cases re-
ported.
Public Health Service to Aid.
| After a conference participated in by
| William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States: Mayor
| Mitchell, Health Commissioner Emerson
| and others, 1t was announced last night
| that the United States public health
| service would cooperate with the New
| York authorities in their efforts to
stamp out the epidemic of infantile par
| alysis which already has cost the lives
\ of more than $50 children.
! The federal aid, it was said, would be
| directed at once to tracing the origin
of the disease. This will consist large
| ly in field archaeological and labora-
| tory studies. the latter being chiefly ex-
| periments with animal inoculations. In
| this connection. 1t was said, a telegram
| had been sent to Washington asking
tnaC lUU monkeys, procured III tne
| Philippines for the Rockefeller Insti-
| tute of Medical Research here, be not
subjected to a recent embargo order
| which has delayed their arrival into
| the country. According to Commission
er Emerson. monkeys are regarded as
the best possible animal mediums thus
far discovered for proving the trans
mission of the disease
Anxious to Find Disease Carriers.
Commissioner Emerson asserted that
the health department is anxious to
find. II possible, the so-called carriers
of the disease, since this seems to be
the information necessary to enable
the authorities to control 1t. The fed
eral health officers, he said, are able to
handle this phase much more thor
oughly than could be done locally, be-
cause of the fact that the government
workers are specially trained and fre-
quently deal with similar problems.
All hospitals. it was said, will be ask
ed to send material from fatal cases
Of infantile paralysis to the depart
ment of health for examination and re-
search.
Commissioner Emerson said:
I'VE are doing and have done abso-
lutely everything we can to prevent
the spread of infantile paralysis. If it
is not checked I do not know what else
can be done. and fear it will have
to run its course l am not confident
that the epidemic is being controlled.
From our experience with other cpl
denies / look forward to it running
through the summer months"
Maryland Child succumbs.
BALTIMORE. Md. July IA two
year-old child of Lithuanian parents
living near Annapolis Junction. Md,
died of infantile paralysis at a hospital
here today. So far as is know this Is
the only case of the disease in BaIti-
more.
New Cases Outside New York City.
ALBANY. n. Y. July Flight new
cases of infantile paralysis in sections
of the state outside Of Greater New
York were reported to the state health
department up to noon today. This
brings the total number of cases out
side of New York up to forty-fve The
new cases were reported today as fol-
lows:
Two at Yonkers, and one each at
Dutchess Junction. Warwick. Jasper,
Hornell. Copiague and Glen Cove.
The department today sent letters to
the presidents of all railroads in the
state requesting that especial care be
taken in disinfecting all cars that carry
children from New York. Local health
officers were instructed today to see
that glasses at soda fountains and
other public gathering places were
thoroughly cleansed and disinfected
after use.