New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-29
Five of Days New Cases
Are Persons More than
Seven Years Old.
MOTHER ASKS COURT
FOR ANDERSON BABY
Declares That Child Was
Forcibly and illegally
Taken from Her.

Twenty-six new cases Of infantile
paralysis the same number reported
on Wednesday were reported in New
York City yesterday. Deaths from the
scourge were doubled On Wednesday
five persons succumbed. Yesterday ten
died. A case was found in the Bor-
ough Of Richmond yesterday None had
been reported from there for the last
Ten days.
As the plague wanes, it apparently
attacks more vigorously those Of more
mature years. Five Of the new cases
Yesterday were persons more than seven
years old Ors. Philip arnold, of POSI-
Southern Boulevard, The Bronx, is
twenty-nine Warren Henderson. sew
onteen years old, Of 80 Henry Street,
Brooklyn. died IN the Contagious d.
seases Hospital on Kingston Avenue.
yesterday. He had spent the entire
summer In the country, and had re
turned 20 New York apparently IN the
best of health.
Agitation Brings Amusement.
Agitation started by members OF the
Anti Vaccination League, who have as
serted that infantile paralysis Is
caused By vaccination, furnished much
amusement and food for ridlcule among
officers of the Health Department: yes
tcrday.
DR.. Oscar VI. Lesser, acting director
Of the Bureau Of Public Health. said
the accusation was not worth reply.
In the last three years" he con-
tinued. the Department of Health has
vaccinated 207 066 school children. Not
A single death resulted, and there were
only about sixty who complained OF
sore arms. The United States govern
ment vaccinated 100000 persons IN
the Philippines without single death
He also pointed out that a child was
not usually vaccinated for the trst
time until after he was five years old.
Children among whom the largest
number of paralysis cases have oc-
CURED are under that age.
No Answer by Emerson.
Or. Haven Emerson, Health Commits
sioner, refused 70 discuss the Charge
of the anti-vaccinaCo people.
"The theory Of the cause of infantile
paralysis as advanced by the Anti-Vac-
c'nation League he said. merits no
serious consideration. The Department
cf Health is not considering the matter
At all"
DR.. Emerson also said children we're
coming back 10 the public schools IN
ever increasing numbers and that by
rext week attendance would be normal.
The school 20 which the Health Com
missioner sends his own children VIII
not open until October is.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Anderson, OF
New York Avenue. Jamaica, Long ISL
and, yesterday appeared with their
LAWYER. Lawrence T. Gresser, before
Justice Manning in the Supreme Court
and asked for a writ OF haoeas corpus
20 recover possession Of their baby
Robert. now in the Greensboro Hos
pital as a paralysis suspect.
The petition declares that the child
was taken by "forcible, unwarranted ana
Illegal trespass upon the premises OF
the petitioners" The case viii be re-
sumed to-day.
Forty cases Of infantile paralysis
were reported to the State Department
OF Health from counties outside New
York City Yesterday for the twenty
four hours ending az 3 P. m. This was
a slight increase over the preceding
day. No deaths were reported. The
total Of cases outside New York City
is now 32S5. There have been 55s
deaths.
Yesterdays cases were grouped by
counties as follows: Onondaga' y
Wos+chester. s.: Otscgo. 3; Oswego, a.
Orange. 3: Jefferson. Warren, Tomp-
kins and Albany. 2; Broome. Schuyler,
Schenectady, Lewis, Greene, Nassau and
Suffolk. /.
Following are the addresses where
cases and deaths were reported yes'er-
day in New York City:
New Cases-Borough of Manhattan.
27l West 10th Street, ISL lnird
Avenue. 304 East l0lst Street, 5o East
1924 Street. 430 East l22d Street, 225
West l44th Street, lO6 West 1881 street
two cases). 116 West Ninetieth Street,
lO3 West 10lst Street, 4O9 East flf-
teenth Street, 43S East Sixth Street, 100
Mulberry Street.
Deaths-Borough Of Manhattan.
22O7 Seventh Avenue. 19l Grand
Street. 2703 Eighth Avenue, 3O1 Last
Ninety-third Street.
New Cases-Borough of The Bronx.
1886 Cypress Avenue, 1909 Brook Ave
nue.. POSI- Southern Boulevard. 1929
Bryant Avenue.
Deaths-Borough of The Bronx.
$50 East l37th Street, $50 st. AIMS
Avenue.
New Cases-Borough of Brooklyn.