Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-20
PARALYSIS SPREAD
BY REFUSE HEAPS AND
STABLE MANURE PITS
percentage of Cases Higher in
Wards Where Such Condi-
tons Prevail, Sanitation
Bureau Chief Says
pAPs AT GERMANTOWN

,ussntiiep analysis crops out where refuse
~ and stables abound.
p,s. ABDUCTION was made today by James
III ess.scrudden. chief OF the Division of
,,-.s,ne " and Sanitation, from the hgures
~. nolice canvas OF stables in the city.
~, ~ ilst was made by wards and almost IN
Ivy 1hs,v the wards containing the larger
'Al's 'A'ssr Of stables also contains the greater
rulnss rns.r NJ cases of the malady. Like DIR.
nussi a Dixon, State Commissioner OF
samsss s,.s he believes that flies spread the
dss,ss' 's,s che STA stables in the city, 404
"a In the Twenty-second Ward, where
,sssn,re paralysis has hit particularly hard
VIZ @,h,.f McC,rudden. "On the other hand,
no no,,n,h ward. with not n single case, has
,, ", sishteen stables; and the Third and
@vs wards, with a total of thirty-six
sDs,ss have very few cases. IL is logical
n.s,.r 20 see a close connection between
these facts"
CONDEMNS MAURE PITS
~. owner of Germantown estates in the
",,.second ~ ward, who maintain un-
n.sred manure pits, need education along
@s,,srv lines as badly as do inhabitants
= me poorer districts, Chief McCrudden.
VI, on,y do the exposed pits constitute a
.snace TO health, but they are In violation
Law he said. The division Is unable to
enforce the Ia" oNSt''
rive deaths and two new cases were re-
.,ad TODAY. raising the citys total to I'll
sssss and 233 deaths since the epidemic
broke out.
DEATHS REPORTED
rodays deaths:
,>cryE WOLF, seventeen months els Mercy
e6ipiE ,i56fiiE herman. seven months. All Titan
poRERT ,ITSfRsT cUDDY. eleven months. 4ee collum
SITE s5ess' COHEN. Ave months. 9l4 South Third
,rer,ss sTs,ss JOHNSON two and a half years, 1928
Todays new cases:
aryJAM1N GINsBERG. ten months. 2lS3 South
r,salENE slsnNSnE MELK. fifteen months. 1Oi4 North
Isithgow street.
DIFFER ON SCHOOL INSPECTION
n,serences of opinion have arisen be-
tween State Health Commissioner Dixon
,pd DR. Walter S. Cornell, chief medical
Inspector of the public schools, on the IN
fantile paralysis situation,
Doctor Dixon desires all school children
n be examined before october for symp-
toms of the disease This plan has been
not into effect in Pittsburgh. DR.. A. A.
Cairns chief med cal inspector of the city,
sldes with Doctor Dixon.
This plan would not be feasible in this
city according 10 Doctor Cornell, VINO says
the school term would necessarily be short
sned and the health physicians given more
tine II every child of school age were ex-
ahmed Whether Doctor Dixon will order
the school authorities to put the plan into
thect was not known today.
Doctor Cornell said that while the idea
vas worthy one, 1t was physical impos-
sbity.
There are 10000 children in the ele-
mentary schools" said Doctor Cornell.
sixty physicians would require a month to
fnsh the work. 1t would cost $4,000.
Speaking of contagious diseases gener-
Ally, without reference to infantile paral-
yss We tried this plan in the fall of 1912,
and abandoned II because more than a
month was consumed in miscellaneous ac-
tiylties which yielded little or nothing"
Doctor Dixon when he made the sug-
. festlon thought that in such an emergency
here would be scores of physicians who
would volunteer to assist In the work. Pitts
burgh. whose health officials notified Doctor
Dixon that they proposed to make such
an examination, has upward Of 100000
Ehool children.