New-York tribune., 1916-07-13
1852 Attacked by Par.
alysis-17 More
Dead in City.
MANY FINED IN
CLEANUP MOVE
Physicians to Discuss Epi-
demic To-night-May
Tell of Discoveries.

The infantile paralysis epidemic
abated its sweep through the tenements
again Yesterday. The figures OF i'll
moss and death fell substantially below
those for the day before, but skilled
physicians declared that no signih-
canoe at all could be attached to the
drop.
Only a marked decrease maintained
for several days, they said. could bring
real encouragement.
One hundred and sixty-two new cases,
OF which 131 were in Brooklyn, were
found during the twenty-four hours
which ended at 10 yesterday morning.
Manhattan had twelve, Queens thirteen,
Richmond five and The Bronx one.
During the same time seventeen deaths
were reported to the Health Depart
ment-twelve in Brooklyn, four in Man
haitian and one in Queens. There were
1875 new cases found and thirty-two
deaths reported Tuesday.
The Health Departments sole reason
for encouragement yesterday was found
in the announcement that all parts Of
the city which have hitherto escaped
were still free from the disease.
Mayor Calls Conference.
Mayor Mitchell summoned to con-
ference at the City Hall yesterday
morning heads of the city departments
which are cooperating in the cleanup
campaign directd against the plague,
and the advisory medical board of the
Health Department. Eminent physi-
clans, several of whom represented
medical institutions of wide repute,
also attended.
The conference was called to con-
slider the practicability Of more strin-
gent isolation and quarantine measures
and to insure a thorough discussion
by experts of the steps the Health
Department has taken TO combat the
plague. 1t was decided, in view Of
the scant knowledge medical science
has of the ways in which the germ OF
infantile paralysis is carried from the
sick to the we'll, that everything pos
sible had been and was being done.
A committee of physicians was ap--
pointed 10 study the problems involved
and report back in a day or two to the
Mayor.
"The city is prepared to do anything
] that il can to stop the epidemic de-
/ clared the Mayor. Funds will not
stand in the way"
A great meeting of physicians will
be held this evening at the New York
Academy of Medicine. Infantile par.
| alysis and the present epidemic VIII
be exhaustively discussed. There were
rumors yesterday that important an
nouncements of new discoveries made
by the doctors of the Rockefeller In
! stitute in their research work would
/ be made at the meeting. One report
was that the minute germ OF infantile
paralysis had been found and isolated
Health Commissioner Emerson said
| this was not true, though 1t had been
| isolated By Dr. Simon Flexner, of the
institute, several years ago.
Clean Up Move Goes On.
The campaign to clean the streets,
alleys. yards and tenements Of the
city is being carried on with great
vieor Violations of the sanitary code
were punished by fines in all the mag
istrates' courts. Most of the defen
dants were arraigned as the result OF
investigations by members of the Home
Defence League. several thousands of
whom aid the police each day. In Man
haitian BAL persons were fined sums
ranging from 81 to SIS. More than
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