Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-31
ORDERED FARMER TO
 REMAIN AT HoMA
Owner of Wauwecus Hill Farm Must Stay in Quarantine for Three Week.

City Health Officer Edward J. Bro-
 phy was informed on Wednesday that
 Philip Rosenberg, proprietor of the
 farm on WauWecuS Hill from which
 year old Dorothy Zucl1erman was talk
 en to the Backus hospital with infan-
 tile paralysis on Tuesday, was in the city peddling garden produce. The health officer lest no time in investi-
 gating this report, and when he en- countered Rosenberg he ordered him to keep out of Norwich for the next three weeks without fail. The farmer appeared to be somewhat disconcerted at the health officers request, but when the situation had been explained to him he obeyed without further mur- mur. The ZUCkerman child remained pretty sick at the hospital Wednesday with one arm paralyzed and one leg l to a lesser degree, but pr. Brewer, the i visiting physician at the hospital, thinks there is not much danger. | Kenneth Browning, the year old l son of MT. and Mrs. Charles R. Brown l ing, of East Great Plain. was in less pain on Wednesday, although the pa
 ralysis persists in his thighs The l child has been placed in isolation at
 his home.
 Dr. Thompson said Wednescay night 1 that this new case at East Great 1 Plain would not influence in any way
 the attendance of children at the | county fair next week. The Browning | home is north from Backus corner and i in a position remote from travel and i in perfect isolation. Before passing l finally on the question of letting cnil- | dren go to the fair in view of the general situation the town and city 1 health officers will confer.
 ] The Sunday schools of the city fol- l lowed the example set in other cities 1 and following the announcement of 1 the first case of paralysis in Norwich | a number have announced the decision 1 to remain closed until Sept. 24 the 1 day before the public schools open. l City Health Officer Brophy endorses l this plan. as it is an excellent plan 1 to keep children from congregatipg at | this time, particularly where they will | be closed in. The Second, Park and | GreeneVlue congregational and St. | Patrick's and St. Mary's Sunday l schools are those who have arranged | to delay their opening ana others are 1 expected to follow in their wake. Trin- l ity M. E. Sunday school has decided | that no child under 16 shall be aI- l lowed to come until the paralysis sit uation has cleared up more than at | present is the case
 l Health department officials stated on | Wednesday that the infantile paralysis l situation in New London is about the i same, there having been no new cases
 or any startling developments since l Tuesday.
 The health department is taking l steps for the return to New York of a 1 New York boy, claimed to be under Is l years of age, who evaded the health l embargo Tuesday, or have his parents ! furnish proof that he is over 16. The | boy came up on the New London line 1 steamer Tuesday morning to join his mother in Salem and he was held up 1 by a health inspector who suspected that the boy was not 16 as he claimed.
 He was to have returned to New York
 on the HIS express Tuesday morning, | but he succeeded in escaping the vigil ance of the authorities and went to 1 Salem.
 Tuesday night Samuel Eisenden of Salem went to New London to get the 1 boys baggage, which had been quar- | antined at the union station. It was refused him and he was compelled under penalty of spending the night in jail to tell where the boy was.
 The boys mother telephoned to the health department Wednesday morning for his baggage and she was informed by Dr. Chipman that she could not have it, and, furthermore, she would have to prove that the boy is over 16 years old or suffer the consequences. Marcus BonfteId, the six months old 1 Brooklyn boy who was stricken by the disease at a farm in Chesterfield Mon day, was taken to the contagion ward l of the Memorial hospital Tuesday ! evening. He was accompanied by his
 mother, as the child is still being
 nurSed,