Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11

EPIDEMIC CONTINUES TO GAIN
State Health Commissioner Cixoh
Orders Quarantine to Prevent Spread
of Plague.

A statewide quarantine against
children under the age OF slX.een ell
tering Pennsylvania from New Jersey
and New York was ordered by Ut
Gamuel G. Dixon, state commissioner
or healty.
No children who have been living IN
homes where the sease has deVet
cred or have come into conta.t I'll
victims OF the disease will be allowed
TO come imto this state. Ill o.hei
children under the forbidden ag2 VIII
be placed under observation before De
i.g allowed to enter.
The following communication was
sent out by DR.. Dixon to the heal-n
authorities Of the states OF New lorN
and New Jersey:
The commonwealth Of Penn wa
MA this day placed quarantine against
a.l children under sixteen coming from
outside the cCmmonwealt who nave
had or have been in contact with In
faptile paralysis during the presenl
epidemic. Other children under SIX
teen will be detained at the port ol
entry and placed under observation
before being allowed to proceed"
Orders were Immediately sent out
for the state health boards to closely
guard all points OF entry into this
state from the affected states, eithel
Ey rail, boat, awheel or afoot. Extra
inspectors Will be placed upon everj
railroad train and boat coming inc
tie city and al children in vehicles
will be closely examined before being
allowed to cross tie state line.
Inspectors will be pace In the
towns OF the two states where the dis
case is NEST prevalent and cooperate
with the local boards Of health. The
railroads have also been asked to a!d
il the quarantine.
Theh railroads will be ordered t.
discontinue selling return tickets 1ol
children under sixteen years OF age tC
any OF the points in New York and
New Jersey and health officers will be
DIaced at the various railroad stations
to see that the orders are enforced.
All Pennsyivanians who are now
spending several days in New York
and New Jersey at summer resorts OF
in the various towns will be required
to secure health certificates from The
local health officers before they will
BE- permitted to return to this state.
1--WE are busy drawing up the plans
for placing the quarantine in effect
said DR.. Dixon at his Office in Harris
burg "Of course, with the large terri
tory we have to cover we do not eN
pect to effect complete quarantine
but we do not believe any case vii.
evade us for long. | have called l.
about fifty men from the interior coun
tiesties, who will be placed in the
places where most of the traffic tc
Philadelphia originates, such as il
New York, Jersey City, Trenton, Cam
den and other points. They will be
placed in the railroads stations and
the ferry houses and other point
where travellers embark"
One death and three new cases o.
infantile paralysis were reported h
Director Krusen of the Phil4delphi
department of health. The total nu"'
Der OF deaths in the city since Tlur
day morning is three, and the tote
number of cases since July is sixty
So serious has the outbreak betomG
that Director Krusen ca,lea Il meeting
Of twenty physicians, representa-
three hospit;As and the same numbe
of associations, to discuss was ar
means of fighting the plague in l'li'a
delphia.