New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-16

s207i has been expended for personal
service, which includes salaries of 162
| hospital helpers and domestics, IL
chauffeurs, I psychologists. II clerks,
! $50 hospital nurses. rs field nurses,
~ hospital physicians ard 30 medical
inspectors.
Supplies Have Cost s25,55o.
For supplies and equipment the de-
partment has expended $2b,552l5.
Cases of the disease treated in private
/ hospitals, at sl.25 a day for each
patient, have cost the department So
, 1920; $l,6575 so has been expended for
/ patients treated at the same rate on
/ Swinburne Island. BY putting large
numbers Of cases in the city hospitals
the city s43.S63.75. J.,
DR.. Zingher drew from the veins OF
4 two persons yesterday at Willard
Parker Hospital twenty ounces of blood
The volunteers were Luster Van
, Setback. of Whitestone, Long Island,
I and Emil Lechner. Of 62 East Ninety.
sixth Street, secretary and treasurer OF
/ the Alumni of Crippled Children OF
/ Public School I04. Mr.. Van Shack is
thirty-seven years old, and had infan-
tile paralysis when he was one year
old. He gave eight ounces OF blood
Twelve ounces were given by Mr.. Leon.
ner, who is twenty-five years old, ana
i contracted the disease when he was
six months old.
Case Found in Convent.
The first case Of infantilc paralysis
in children's institution was reported
Yesterday from St. Joseph's Convent
! for Girls. at Flushing. l.. l.. which
houses 322 children. The patient is
Catherine Murphy, three years old.
She was removed to the Queensborough
Hospital. and the other children are
being carefully watched.
The Department of Health also re-
ported the death Of another adult from
the disease Yesterday. He was William
A. Crook. twenty-three years old, son
of Mrs. W. c. McKeeby, OF Syracuse.
and nephew of DR.. Joseph Macdonald.
managing editor "The American Jour
nal of Surgery" Mr.. Crook, me-
chanical engineer. employed by the
WHY'S Overland Automobile Company,
died in the Minturn Hospital. ,
Figures showing tht the death rate OF
children under one year old was lower
last week than during the correspond
ing week of last year were issued YES
terday by Commissioner Emerson. Inc
total deaths this year for the week
were $50. and for the week Of last year
they were 1894.
Brace Funds Total 1858.
For the first thirty-three weeks OF
1915 the deaths were 1887, while last
wear they were 1851. The Commis-
sioner also announced that he had re-
ceived contributions totalling s633 for
the Fund for Mechanical Appliances Tor
Crippied Children, bringing the FUND 20
s7.S90.79. Among yesterdays contrlo'
utors were Blanche Hagedorn, SLOW,
Harris Fahnestock, $3.50, and the four
Fayettes. $50. wit
DIR. John S. Billings, Deputy Health
Commissioner. declared that Gertruae
Cyre. sixteen years old, negro, VINO
ESCAPED from the Long Island College
Hospital. where she was an lntahtliSy
PARALYSIS patient, had been cured anu
had endangered no one since her es-
cane. She had been working as q do,
nestle in the home of John Lyons, oil
1072 Fast Fourth Street, Brooklyn, ana
,yas taken by the police yesterday %
TIE Kingston Avenue Hospital, wher'
she is being detained. uL
DR. Banks has been ordered TO Wash
;npton TO attend me state and terri
.orial conference on pohoinyeiiis
which will begin tomorrow under 'ne
direction Of the United States Puoilc
Health Service. Prior TO his departure
he said hereafter, with the addltlonal
government surgeons sent mere lor
duty, he would extend the hours Oh eN-
animation and at the railroad stations
and ferries so that certificates may be
obtained from Z 80 a. m. TO p H. OH
week days and Sundays.
New Jersey Quarantine Aids.
The work of the government physi-
clans has been greatly aided by the
New Jersey quarantine, wnlch went
into effect yesterday. Under JUS tulGs
no child is permitted to travel OUTSIDE
of New Jersey or from town 70 towh
within the state without a cerIIhcale
from a local board of health: During
the morning yesterday the rulings ocea-
stoned considerable confusion In jersey
City, Bayonne, Hoboken ana o! or Nem
Jersey towns. but by nightfal Things
had been Strengthened out, and no noie
difficulty is anticipated.
MANY New Jersey towns have put
into effect regulations even more strlct
than those promulgated by the state
Roard of Health. In Montelair the
BOARD of Health issued an order yes
terdav that no person under twenty-oho
years of age was to be admitted TO a
moving picture theatre during the cpl
deuic In Hoboken Mayor Patrick H.
Griffin called a conference to determine
whether the public schools would be
allowed to omen at the usual time or
kent closed until November |. NO az
ton was taken, and another meeting
will be held to-day.
In Peapack- Gladstone the citizens be
came so alarmed over the spread OF 'he
plague that in twenty-five hours they
erected an isolation hospital for victims
of the disease. The building cost 81 'ooo,
which was subscribed by residents OF
the town and vicinity. IL mas peeh
named the Lulu Hollans Hospital
I2O New Cases in New Jersey
One hundred and twenty new cases
u,ere renorted to the State Board OF
Health at Trenton yesterday. One was
an adult. Walter Gray, twenty-five years
old. of 2sl Watching Avenue, west
Orange. The new cases reported are
Newark. 65; Jersey City, 3; lrylngtoh'
7; Paterson. 4; Bayonne, 8; BethIeneni,
2: two each from Atlantic City, west
Orange, West New York, Trenton, New
Brunswick and North Plainheld; one
each from Bogota, Hackensack, Leonia'
Relleville. East Orange, MillDurn,
Washington, Harrison, Kearny, West
Uoboken. Boonton, Madison, Brick
township, Newton, Elizabeth. Linden.
PIainfieid. and Westfield. Since July
there have been reported to the stat
Board of Health 1861 cases IN l'o
different towns and villages.
A new record for one day in New
YORK outside the city was established
Yesterday, when seventy-iive new
Eases of the plague and four deaths
- ronor.ed 10 the health authorities