New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20
WEEKS PLAGUE RECORD IN ALL BoRoUGHS'


mails. such as cats and dogs and rats,
which have died of animal paralysis
| within the last few weeks. These
/ cords, together with ligaments and
muscles showing the effects of the
paralysis, are packed in glycerite ana
! shipped as soon as obtained. No con-
| nection. however, has yet been estab-
| hshed be/Xeen animal and infantile
( paralysis.
DR.. Charles Z. Banks. senior surgeon
I in charge Of the Public Health Service
/ work here, returned yesterday from the
/ infantile paralysis conference at WASH
1 incton. He declared that the confer
/ ence Endorsed and urged the contlnu-
/ ance Of the quarantine and Inspection
work of the service. DR.. Banks also
/ said that beginning to-day he would
extend the hours of examination ana
/ inspection at the railroad stations and
ferries TO O'Clock p. m.
Fund Grows Steadily.
The Fund for the After~Care OF
/ Crippled Children was increased to
/ l.452.29 by contributions received
Yesterday by the Health Department.
( The contributors included Middleton
i 5. Burrill, 500; G.. ". McGarrah,
( S1OC; Mary Russell Amory, 500; J.
/ IL. Purdy $50; Mrs. b. Sessler, $50, and
/ Mrs. Granger A. HOLSTER, $50.
The central committee on after-cure
Yesterday selected the visiting nurses
/ of the Henry Street Settlement to fol-
( low up all paralysis cases in Manhat-
/ tan and The Bronx after they are dis
| charged from the hospitals. Miss
Bessie Amerman, head OF the Settle
ment Nursing Service, said yesterday
that five additional nurses would be
needed for the work. There are now
los nurses on the staff of the settle
ment. They have thirty-fve partially
recovered patients already under OBJ
servation.
Eighty-three new cases Of the plague
were reported yesterday to the State
Board Of Health at Albany from the
state outside of New York City. There
are now in the state 1910 cases and
there have been 1852 deaths. The new
cases listed yesterday are: Five each in
Bay Shore, Huntington and Oyster Bay,
four each in Bedford Hills and Smith
town, three each in Port Chester, Yon-
kers, Quogue and East Islip, two each
in Savonia, Colonie, Mamaroneck, Belle
port, Poughkeepsie, Westbury, East
hampton and Taleville.
One each in Hague, Lexington, Pei
ham Manor, Clay, Wayland, New
Haven, Brewster, Over Plains, Port
Jefferson, Lincoln, Ithaca, Carthage,
Constantia, Northport, lslip, Hemp
stead, Valley Stream, Floral Park, Free
port, Inwood, East Williston. larry
town. Katonah, Rudco, Jackson Corners,
Bayville, Sands Point, Rockville Centre,
Riverhead, Port Washington, New Hyde
Park and Babylon. The case in West
bury is that of Margaret Siliman, five
years old, a daughter of DR.. George
Siliman. She was taken to the Roslyn
Association Hospital.
Eighty-one new cases were reported
Yesterday TO the State Board Of
Health of New Jersey. Revised
figures issued by the board show that
since July l there have been 1850
cases reported, distributed among 1872
towns and villages. Yesterdays new
cases are in: Newark. 30; Camden, .;
4 each in Jearsey City and East
| Orange, 8 each in Irvington, Bayonne,
+ Harrison and Trenton; each in
Orange, Weehawken, Princeton Bor-
ough, Railway and Elizabeth; and one
each in Dumont, Fort Lee Borough,
/ Montclair, West Hoboken. Readington
/ Township in Hunterdon County, Fair
haven Borough, Atlantic Highlands
Borough, Paterson, Pompton Lakes
Borough, Salem, Franklin Township, in
Somerset County; Union Township, III
Union County Linden Borough, West
field, Hackensack, Woodbridge Town
ship and South Orange.
Plague in New Brunswick.
A third adult to die Of the plague in
New Brunswick, n. j., succumbed TO
the disease yesterday. He was Joseph
Msher, twenty-three years old, of 8
Sicard Street. He was i'll only few
hours.
Previous adult victims were Samuel
Kleimer, forty-eight years old. and Ar
thur Sodegram, twenty-eight. The
plague has made so much progress in
New Brunswick recently that the
health authorities have decided TO erect
an isolation hospital. No children I'M
der sixteen are allowed to enter the
town.
The addresses at which new cases
were found in New York yesterday are
as follows:
The following are the addresses
where new cases of paralysis have been
found
Manhattan.
167 Orchard Street, 1852 Stanton
Street q cases., l20 Forsyth Street,
70 Orchard Street, "a Mulberry Street,
so James Street, SO Thompson Street,
PSI West Eleventh Street, lat Sulli-
van Street, IA Morton Street, 30 Down
ing Street, 21S Thompson Street, SO
Washington Street, pa Avenue A,
511 East Eleventh Street, 625 East
Ninth Street, Alb East Seventeenth
Street. 1S9 Avenue c. l05 East Twen-
ty-second Street. 246 East Twenty
sixth Street, 1926 East Twenty-frst
Street, 400 West Twenty-siXth Street,
SAC Ninth Avenue. 900 West Thirty
first Street, 1T West Twenty-sixth
Street, 424 West Twenty-sixth Street,
327 West Forty-frst Street, 1858 West
Sixteenth Street, 20 East Eleventh
Street, 5000 East Eighty-fourth
Street, 824 Third Avenue, 30S East
first Street, SIS West Ninety-eighth
Street, 554 West Fifty-ffth Street. $50
West End Avenue, 500 West 19lst
Street, 1866 st. Nicholas Avenue, 1913
West l34th Street, 70-72 East 10th
/ Street, 1877 East seth Street, 240 East
109th Street 2057 First Avenue, 2S5
East 10th Street. ia West i2Sth
Street, 335 East 115th Street. 100 East
lO5th Street, 237 East 12lst Street, l07
Fast 123d Street, 287 West 142d
Street, 209 East Ninety-ninth Street.
The Bronx.
1919 Longwood Avenue, 1888 Walker
Avenue, 795 West l5lst Street, 9S4
Mott Avenue, 1140 St. Lawrence Ave
rue, 345 and COS East 135th Street, 40
East 146th Street, 1869 Fulton Avenue,
565 East l7Sth Street, 94S Kelly Street,
1877 Franklin Street.
Brooklyn.
375 Williams Avenue, 81 Watkins
Street, 666 Warwick Street, 649 Sack