The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
INCREASING BAN . BY MANY SUBURBS
 ON NEW WORKERS
Persons From the City In Those Towns Under Strict Watch.

1 New York, July 14.-By action of
 the local boards of health in many of
 the outlying towns in the metropolitan district yesterday, the quarantine against New York City on account of infantile paralysis became considerably stronger. In nearly every suburb of
 importance the authorities have taken | measures to prevent persons from | coming in from New York or to place
 them under surveillance after they arrive. The alarm has spread also to large | cities south and west. In Savannah, Ga, the board of sanitary commits
 sioners, appealed to citizens to re- port every person arriving from New York. There is no infantile paralysis
 there now. In Pittsburgh the health department examined several children
 from the infected district of this city and are considering plants to return them here.
 Jersey City took the most drastic action. Dr. Frank H. Edsall. super
 intendeht of health in Jersey City, yesterday notified Commissioner Emerson here that all persons com- ing fom New York into Jersey City
 to remain more than one day will be
 required. to show certificate from
 the health department that they do
 not com from an infected district.
 If they do not, they will be ordered to
 leave the city.
 Left to Local Boards
 Dr. J. c. Price, director of the New
 Jersey state board of health in Tren-
 ton, said the state would not declare
 a quarantine against New York city,
 but would leave that to the local
 boards. An order from the state
 board directed all health officers to make daily reports of new cases of the disease and deaths from 1t.
 Representatives of all but three of the 1 3 municipalities in Hudson coun- ty met in the Jersey C1vy court house under the ehairmanship of Mayor Fa- gan and adopted resolution asking the police in all municipalities to act as sanitary inspectors. Another meet ing will be held today. The fifth case in Jersey City was reported yesterday.
 The attorney generals office of New Jersey gave the opinion that the state cannot ban children under IA years of age from outside if they are healthy. The state board of health then asked the railroads to discontinue giving ex- cursions from the present
 The police in Tenafiy turned back yesterday 25 ichildren from other places. chiefly from New York city Health Officer .H-cKenna said no chii- dren will be. received from outside. 1of~ ,o% several children had been turned back. Local children, returning from infect ed cities or towns. must be quaran- tined in their homes from enc to two 4 Ferry Is Guarded, Too. q In Englewood- no children under 16 are permitted to enter except with a certificate of health and statement that they do not come from infected districts. The police in Edgewater are not only guarding the ferry from 130th street, Manhattan. to keep chill ren out, but have established motor boat patrol to prevent children from crossing the river in other craft
 A report to the New Jersey State | Health Department last night gives the total number o4 cases in the state as 50, with II new cases for the day. | Nine of these are in Newark, one in | Passaic and the other in National | Park, Gloucester county. This report | does not check with the local reports Hackensack reported its first case and 1 Judge William M. Seufert issued a call | for mass meeting of mayors from all measures.
 < rshn 1aooI hoo v.d tv1 Kovryo rIx fod five new cases and three deaths. The | Board of Freeholders has appropriat- ed $5,000 for building an annex to the 1 isolation hospital, with facilities for 1 100 cases. Westfeld reported one i B quarantine and closed Sunday | attend motion picture shows and band concerts.
 Arcola discovered a case. In Ho- boken Recorder Adolph Carsten fined 3 score of persons for violating the Sanitary Code. The fines amounted to $11s. In Hackensack fine of $25 was imposed on Mrs. Joseph Crevine, whose three-year-old niece has the disease. She broke quarantine to at tend a funeral.
 Meet Trains and Trolley Cars.
 Westchester county towns are rig Idly yquarantined against children from New York city. Health and police officers yesterday met every incoming train an trolley car and even stopped i, and turned back all chill II dren under 16. In Yonkers, where the second case was reported, the board of health asked property own CTS to refuse to rent places to persons from infected areas unless they pro- iuced health certificates.
 Health officials in Ossining pro- hibited chilren under 16 from entering pr leaving by the railroad station. There are three suspected cases. War len Kirchway, at Sing Sing prison. a quarantine against call- ITS. Mrs. Fi>-.>y J. Shepard closed Ter sewing school at Lyndhurst and llso her playgrounds and announced hat she would not bring out any more :hildren from the city this summer. The State Department of Health at Albany reported only five new cases 'utside this city. They are in Green leld, Central Valley. Utica, Cortland md Hudson, making total of 82 ases outside the metropolis. Thesde- 'artment will hold a clinic on Satur- lay in Nassau county to show the arly stages of the disease.
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