New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Health Experts Insist That
Disease Will Be Curbed
by Fall.
161 MORE STRICKEN,
WHILE Al DIE
Manhattan'S Cases Make New
oains-Several Boroughs
Report Decrease.

terday, exceeding by hNe the previous
record mortality figure, the medical
authorities were nevertheless more
optimistic than they have ever beer
that the epidemic would end before fall'
One case is reported at 800 West 1850
Street, near Riverside Drive.
They found grounds for encourage
ment in the pin-dotted borough maps
on the walls of the department Offices
As the pins. each of which marks an
address where case of che disease
has been found, have been pushed into
the map from day to day, it has be-
come increasingly apparent that the
epidemic has slackened materially IN
distress where il was at first severe.
south Brooklyn Decrease.
In S>uth Brooklyn, near the water
front. where the first outbreak oc-
CURED, and on the lower East SIDE
where ct appeared in Manhattan, few
cases ere now being found On the
Other send. the upper East Side Will
lafrsDlfg and Brownsville are feeling
she heaviest touch Of the epidemic.
This indication that the disease eI-
pires in infected districts without at
tacking more than small percentage
Of the children leads physicians to be-
lieve IL can be checked. While cases
hsve been found in large numbers in
dt,tric,s not at first infected, sanl-
tary, isolation and quarantine meas
ures are expected TO prevent the cpl
demic from becoming very severe
there.
"The disease has described path
US from South Brooklyn, through the
Park Slope and Williamsburg, and is
nov gaining fast in Brownsville Dep
uty Health Commissioner Billings said
yesterday. at appears that infantlie
paralysis is self-limiting and IS
checked somewhat by the fact that the
supply of susceptible children in the
districts hardest hit is running low.
With so many children as there are
in Brooklyn, il is impossible that the
sources Of infection be limited. but,
fortur tely, the number of children
who fa.l victims TO the plague Is.
Plague on Decrease.
The opinion that the epidemic, II
rot otherwise checked, will expire by
its own limitations, is upheld by OBJ
servations Of DR.. William II. Frost,
of the United States Public Health
Service. formed in his study of out
breaks of the disease. He found that
the paralysis virus was almost always
widespread through an infected com
munity, but that only a small per-
centsge of the children in the com
munity would be taken i'll, and the
epidemic would then end.
Coincident with the rise in the death
toll, the record number of cases found
in Manhattan in any one day was eX-
ceeded Forty-six were reported, four
more than the previous high tgure
Manhattan's daily average is still ris-
ing, and the Health Departments force
of medical inspectors in the borough
has been increased in an effort 70
discover every case as soon as symp-
toms appear.
A part Of the city hitherto untouched
was invaded, cases being reported from
2l2 West l02d Street and 320 West
1O3d Street, the latter being at the
corner on Riverside Drive.
Sixty-six cases were reported from
BROOKLYN; twenty-nine from Queens
new high figure for that borough;
thirteen from The Bronx and seven
from Richmond.
Prepare for Conference.
DR.. Charles c. Bass, of Tulane Uni
versity, New Orleans; DR.. Theobald
Smith, of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research; and DR.. John F.
Anderson, of New Brunswick, y. j..
Yesterday accepted invitations to the
conference on infantile paralysis OF
world-famous physicians, TO be held IN
New York this week. Seven favorable
replies have now been received oy
Health Commissioner Emerson.
IL was announced that New York
physicians invited include DR.. Simon
Flexner. of the Rockefeller Institute:
Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, DR.. Hans Zins-
ser, professor of bacteriology at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons;
DR.. Herman Behr. of the Mt. Sinai
Hospital laboratories; DR.. William
Carter Wood. Of the Crocker Research
Fund; DR.. William Elser. bacteriolo-
gist at the Cornell Medical School and
pathologist at the New York Hospital;
Dr William II. Park, Of the city labora-
kOIltHt anu us A1HN anu - - AS>.f
inder. Of the United States Public
Health Service. now in the city.
Eighteen new cases of infantile
paralysis and four deaths were re-
ported 10 the State Health Department
yesterday from points outside the city.
There have been $50 cases and thirty
nine deaths reported since the begin
ming Of the epidemic. Among the
places where the latest cases were
found are Roslyn, Floral Park, Beacon,
Rochester, New Rochelle, Saratoga
Springs and Huntington.
Jersey Total Is 4s9
Thirty-nine cases were reported "a
the New Jersey Board Of Health, max.
ing a total of 4s9. Newark reported
twenty-one yesterday; West New York
two; South Brunswick, five; Unior
Township, two; Hohokus, Collingswood
Paterson, Bayonne. lryington, Gutten
burg, West Hoboken. Union Hill and
East Orange, one each
The Canadian government YESTERDAY
issued quarantine orders that no chilC
under sixteen be permitted TO enter
Canada from New York CITY or N,
district within a radius of forty mile.
thereof without a certificate from
medical health officer or duly qualife,
medical practitioner stating that N,
person travelling has not been in con
tact with case Of infantile paralysis
The certificate must be issued within
the twenty-four hours previous 70 th'
child's departure from New York.
The following list Of addresses wher
cases Of infsntile paralysis have beer
found recently was made public yes
terday by the Health Department:
Manhattan