Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-01
PARAL LYSIS SCARE STARTS STAMPEDE
Children With Parents Abandon Rosenberg Farm Wau- Hill Following Outbreak of Dsease-26 Left on Chelsea Thursday Afternoon for New YorIz-Schools Must Run 1s0 Days, Says Secretary Hine.

Philip Rosenberg, who runs the Post farm on Wauwecus Hill, has played in hard luck this week. Things had been going swiInmingly with him this sum mer; his farm was teerning with sum- mer boarders from the big city, the products of his hard-tilled acres were ripe for the market, and every indi- cation-in spite of threatened railroad strikes and all other kinds of trouble pointed to a banner season on the Rosenberg place. And then came ca lanrty in the shape of year old Dor othy Zuckerman of Brooklyn and in- fantile paralysis, and this combination of the time, the place and the girl spoiled all of Rosenberg's fair pros- poets.
 Consternation and turmoil burst in upon the quiet rural secIusion that marks the ordinary course of life on Wauwecus Hill. Distress settled upon the mothers of 31 other children and infants in arms on the Rosenberg acres and the combined efforts of Health Off, 1cer George Thompson of Norwich who visited the farm because it is near the town line, and he thought it was within his province, and Health Officer Abel of Bozrah, who was called over when the geography of the Wauwecus Hill region had been definitely cleared Hp. didn't do a whole lot of good in calming the SC aof trouble.
 Dr. Thompson got there before MT. Abel did and when he took in the state of affairs he was agreeable to Complying with the chorus of maternal solicitations that were showered upon him that they be allowed to leave the danger spot and go back to their homes in New York and Brooklyn. Health Officer Abel went over from his home in Bozrah Center with the idea of put ting the farm and it's boarders Tn quar- antinc and isolation, which would not appear difficult on Wauwecus Hill, but he also was ready to grant the request of the terror-stricken mob of mothers. And the upshot of it is that Dorothy Zuckerman, who caused tn etrouble- or perhaps her father, who may have brought the paralysis when he came visiting from Broolllvn-is in a cot at the hospital, 31 children and their parents are ba 2I, or on their way back. to the big city and home, and Philip Rosenberg, unfortunate victim of in- fantile paralysis, E1though he hasn't got it himself is alone with his own on his farm on Wauwecus Hill.
 Twenty-six of his late boarders were on the Chelsea when she left this city for New York at o'clock Thursday afternoon. Health Officer Abel had found all the children on the place well and sc he armed them with the requi- site heaF3h certificates. Some of them hurried away Wednesday, but the rest waited until Thursday, and then they came down OH WauWecuS 1lll in seven automobiles Health Gua%l Maurice Fitzgerald held up the cavaIcade at East Great Plain and informed the police and Health Officer Brophy to get instructions. In view of their cre- dentials, the health officer permitted them to pass through the city to the boat The party was counted before the health guard let it go by and the rollcal on board ship just before the gangplank was pulled in showed that none was missing. And so the Chelsea. laden with her human freight. dropped down the river. rounded the bend and was seen no more. While Philip Ros- enberg, barred from this city for three weeks when Dr. Brophy caught him peddling vegetables Wednesday, com pares the busy hum Of days gone by with the quiet that now prevails on the hill the Indians called Wauwecus.
 Ice Cream Vendors Barred.
 An order forbidding junk dealers and ice cream vendors from New Lon don, trading in Montville, Salem and