New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
After Care Committee Be.
gins Campaign for the
Fund To-day
HOPES TO GET CASH
BY THANKSGIVING
Health Department FavOrs
Plan to Help $500
Little Victims

III your children were fortunate
enough 20 escape infsntile paralysis,
how mach are you willing to give now.
out Of gratitude. 10 help restore the
health Of children who have been par
alyzed?"
This is the question that the Com
mittee on Appeal of the New York Com
mittee on After Care of Infantile Par
elysis Cases will begin asking mothers
and fathers throughout the city to-day.
1t hopes that by Thanksgiving Day the
united answer will be:
"A quarter Of a million dollars"
OF the 5000 children stricken by
the plague last summer, 2,400 died, 1000
were left without serious deformity
and $500 were crippled. 1t is TO aid in
nursing these $500 cripples back to
health and vigor. TO straighten their
twisted arms and legs and to strength
en- their backs that the Committee on
Appeal asks s25o,0o0.
Fund Campaign Begins
The campaign for funds was launched
Yesterday at meeting Of the committee
in the Hotel Manhattan. The cam
psign Offices will be in Room 170l,
100 Broadway. Robert ". de Forest
chairman of the committee, will direct
the financial drive. Contributions 1t IS
announced, are to be received by James
H. Perkins, treasurer, of 30 Wall Street
The executive committee includes
Nicholas F. Brady. Elliot c. Bacon
George Blumenthal, Irving 7. Bush,
Mrs. William Piersol Hamilton, Mrs.
Frederic B. Pratt, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,
Mrs. James Speyer, Miss Gertrude Rob-
inson-Smith, William Hamilton Childs'
Cleveland H. Dodge. Joseph P. Grace
Francis L. Hine, Adolph Lewisohn'
Edwin P. Maynard, Thomas S. McLane,
Edwin G. Merrill and Alexander NJ
White.
/ Speaking of the need for the money
which the committee on appeal hopes
to gain and the disposition that will be
made of it, Mr.. de Forest said yester-
/ day:
I hospitals, dispensarles and otner eueh
/ nstitutions-have been caring for the
victims of last summers plague as oes'
/ they could. But they have been serl-
/ ously handicapped by lack Of resources
/ TO meet the expense OF this extra WORN
After Care Much Needed
aft became imperative some time ago
/ that concerted action be taken. Hence
/ the New York Committee on After Care
/ of Infantile Paralysis Cases was ap-
pointed by the Commissioner OF heaith'
! IL has estimated that s25O,0OO must Do
/ raised if proper care is to be given 70
the $500 paralysis victims Ihis money
will be spportioned among the various
in accordance with standards OF person
mel and equipment required by the
| Public Health Committee of the Acade-
/ my Of Medicine"
DR.. John NJ. Billings, acting Commits
/ sioner of Health, gave the COMMITTEE
/ on Appeal the hearty Endorsement OF
/ the Health Department at the cam
paign meeting yesterday afternoon. In
, addition he made the important an
nouncement that should the city be
swept by another infantile paralysis
epidemic tho period Of quarantine
would be six weeks, rather than eight
weeks, as was the case during the
plague last summer. All danger of in
+ lection has passed by the end of the
sixth week, the Health Department has
now concluded.
DR.. Thomas ]. Riley, chairman of the
+ Committee for After Care of Infantile
Paralysis Cases. told what his organi-
cation had already accomplished along
the difficult road of nursing the paraly-
/ sis patients back TO health.
Our nurses have already visited
more than 5000 victims Of the plague"