The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
EPIDEMIC CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM IN CAYNOR CHILD One Year Old Member of Severely Stricken Family
 Succumbs. PROMINENT MEN ILL
 WITH THE INFECTION Physicians Say Ravages of Streptococcic ic Disease Are
 Now on Decrease.

NOW OIL O6CT6dS6. With the actual cases of disease still | unknown, but enough histories of ill., l ness and death at hand to permit the state officials to attribute the transmits sion of strepococcic germs in Bridge
 port directly to the Beaver Brook
 farm, radical action was taken by the authorities on Monday.
 Beaver Brook farm milk has been
 barred in this city until the farm off, cials prove conclusively through an- alytical tests that no further danger
 turks in their milk, and certain rec
 concentrations including pasteuriza- | tion, etc. have been compiled with.
 Though eminent physicians through out the city declare their belief that the epidemic of septic sore throat is diminishing rather than increasing,
 deaths from the ailment are continu- ously occurring, and probably will not cease within the next week. The names of many. prominent persons are now becoming known as victims of the scourge. Among these are Waldo c. Bryant, head of the Bryant Electric Co.,, DeVer c. Warner, whose two children have been so seriously i'll as to require the services of the most eminent New York specialists and pr. P. A. Garneau, reported as seriously i'll a this home today. / One new death is recorded. Arthur c! Gaynor, the one year old son of Ar thur c. and the late Irene Cremin Gaynor, has succumbed. Though the Gaynor boy was one of the first to be affected by streptococcic germs, which caused death of Margaret Brannigan. his nurse, it was believed that he had so far recovered as to pass the critical stage. relapse yesterday in an illness extending over 23 days. brought to rapid close this young life. By this death the Gaynor family. living at 1928 North avenue, has been triply affected for Mrs. IGaynor was suddenly stricken and passed away only a few months ago. The nurse, Miss Brannigan, was also stricken. With the third death insideyrof a year the home is plunged into the deepest mourning.
 MT. Bryant has been i'll at his home for nearly two weeks. The cause of his illness has been traced to infected milk. Dr.. D. c. Patterson, who has been treating him, could not be TO- cated in this city to-day, but at the home it was said that Mr. Bryant s condition though critical, was some what improved.
 At the instance of Dr. Virgil P. Gibney, who is said to have had charge of the DeVer c. Warner chill dren, both stricken with septic sore throats, the famous New York spe- cialists in children's diseases, Drs. Elm melt L. Holt and Charles Kerley, have visited Bridgeport. Both children are said to-day to have improved and are believed to be out of danger/
 The actual cause of. the infection here has not been ascertained. Secre- tary Black of the state board of health, Dr. Edward A. Mcclellan, health of f1cer of Bridgeport, George E. Hill, county health officer and many sub ordinate health men of this and New Haven county. met at Beaver Brook farm Monday.
 At the conclusion of the conference it was decided that while important to know the cause of original infection, of more importance is to stop the spread of the disease at this time. In consequence, while all analysis of milk has failed to give the inception or point definitely to a specific cause, the history of cases was sufficient to war rant closing the supply of Beaver Brook milk to public consumption at this time. In Consequence a quaran- tine was placed upon that product.
 In a synopsis of the action taken NT IN fxri h T, officer stated today: we are perfectly stopped and it will not be sold in Bridgeport until the state board of health says so. The cause of infec- ton would be interesting to know but in my opinion no analysis will ever sirable is to krow that the infection is checked. We believe now that it has been checked
 Asked to explain what further steps will be taken to protect Bridge port from milk infection. MT. Hill signified that all supplies will be closely watched and the Beaver Brook farm will be compelled to take the initiative and assure the state board of health that no possible cause for fear need be entertained. Several recommendations from the state board, including the pasteuriza- tion of milk from the Beaver Brook herd, have been made.
 It is understood that action against
 the Beaver Brook farm has been taken not on analysis of milk rather upon the history of medical cases in Bridgeport, Milford and-New Haven. 
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