Putnam patriot., 1916-07-14
IN FIGHT TO CHECK
 MATHEMATICS
Many New Cases Show Epi.
 demic Is Rife
ASKS Sf00,0OO FEDERAL AID
Cleanliness Fight on-Many Violators of Sanitary Ordinances Fined Other States WatehfuI-Fisht
 on Paralysis Gives Results.

New York.-One hundred and thres more little red-topped pins. pushed into the city maps on the walls of Health Commissioner Emerson's of. fee. masked the progress of the infan- tile paralysis plague. Each pin show ed the location of a newly discovered case of the disease
 With fourteen deaths reported the day proved one of the worst since the outbreak of the epidemic Only twice before have the daily illness figures passed the century mark Most alarm. ing to the physicians, who are work ing night and day Tn the fight against the epidemic was it's rapid spread In Manhattan, where thirty new cases were found-almost twice as many as on any previous day
 Hope was not entirely abandoned that the ravages of the disease could be checked and confined to districts where it has already been reported. but Health Department officials and officers of the United States Public
 Health Service joined in declaring that the crux of the situation was the necessity of discovering ways by which the disease Is spread. In Washington the heads of the Public Health Service met and de- cided to ask Congress for an appro- priation of s100,000 to be used for infantile paralysis research work and in fighting the spread Of the disease in order states.
 One by one cities and towns and even small villages in country dis tricts are being closed to the thou sands of New York children who are being hastily taken out of the city be- cause of the epidemic Many of the places have declared an absolute quarantine against children from New
 York Others permit them to re main. but closely quarantine the houses in which they visit for periods
 varying from ten days te two weeks.
 Complaints have been received bv
 the State Health Department that
 quarantine rules in New York were being disregarded in that children
 from infected districts were permit
 ted to leave the city for upstate cities
 or towns Nine of the cases reported
 from upstate towns are children from Brooklyn.
 It is becoming more and more evi-
 dent that the Federal service faces
 a serious problem In preventing the | epidemic from becoming widespread 1 throughout the East.
 Twenty-Five cases from districts of 1 New York outside of the greater city were reported 10 the State Health | Department at Albany, making a to. | tai of seventy-fve in all. Cases in Newark. Orange and other cities
 strengthened the hold of infantile pa. alysis upon New Jersey and districts near New York.
 All children under sixteen have been barred from entering Paterson, ex. cept to pass through the city on the railroads. Hundreds of persons from New York and Brooklyn have been ordered to depart Poughkeepsie has
 unless they are willing to undergo a quarantine of two weeks. At Westfeld, Butler, Bloomingdale and other New Jersey towns, health officers meet all trains and question persons with children who get of. If they are from New York they are requested to take the first train back to the city.
 As far West as California, Wash ington and oregon, according to dis patches. stringent precautionary meas. ures are being taken to prevent out breaks of infantile paralysis. Medical inspectors meet all trains from the East.
 Kyen Havana, Cuba, has declared
 a partial quarntine against children from the United States, because of
 the prevalence of paralysis through. out the East.