New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Health Department Fears
Car Strike Will Hamper
Inspection.
FIVE NEW CASES NEAR
ROCKEFELLER HOME
MANY Others in Westehester-
100 More Patients and 50
Deaths Yesterday.

suSfecNe0 -. ..o,
,,omptly, the Health Department yes
rV 1,obilized every available auto
.S;Is 20 carry physicians and nurses
:. Dl,c,s isolated by the car strike
~ the day the situation was
-, well in hand, for the number OF
inspected cases reported was compare
.s,t small. but department officials
-. preparing to meet every emer-
ssney. 49,. ..d I.rcs
.mb.r, Of suspected cases are found
-. ouestion OF promptly reaching them
Al come down TO one Of money
n,nr.v Health Commissioner Billings
"a isst night. IF there are not
..orsb department and physicians au-
..S;,s. % 80 around we'll hire taxi
oLs Our greatest trouble Will be 70
-, nurses 70 outlying sections OIL
5..ot,vn. 70 Washington Heights
30 a number Of cases have been
s.n.S-and 20 widely separated dis
,y,rts Of The Bronx, Richmond ana
S svost Of our physicians have their
urn and they will be very useful
sSoglS the epidemic become worse.
Yesterdays Record High.
a;.,ouraging report Of 1872 new
-, ard 3S deaths was issued by the
g.sitb Department for the twenty
- hours which ended at 10 O'CLOCK
-.s..-Ssv morning. The total for the
!.;S.-nic has risen 70 5.023 cases, re-
s1it;r0 in 1899 deaths. and there are
- ;nS;eations that it has yet reached
is height -. ord
In two boroughs the previous record
,,,,bsr Of cases was exceeded IN yes
..r5sv's report. The Bronx, where the
sn;deroie has been held well IN check,
ia nineteen cases. six more than on
INV o.ber day. Queens had thlrty-tour'
Its former high figure was one less.
prookIvn reported ninety-three; Man
L'.,sD forty-fve. and Richmond, one.
The Richmond report brought hopes TO
Health Department officials that IN at
ieaso one borough the fight against the
disease was almost won.
while the number Of suspected cases
awaiting diagnosis yesterday was com
p,,rativelv small. Deputy Commls-
goner Billings pointed out that this
hsd been true Of every Sunday since
tbc outbreak of the epidemic, and there
would consequently be no well-founded
Ground for encouragement should TO-
davis Health Department report ap-
mar 10 show slackening in the
spread of the disease.
u an afraid there will be jump IN
cases early this week he said. The
hot weather probably did good deal OF
harm, and its results, which would
show at the end Of the seyen-day aver
age incubation period Of infantile
paralysis, are yet 10 be heard from"
House-tO-House Hunt.
Plans are being perfected for the
house-.o-house inspection campaign 70
be started within few days. The
Health Department will be aided by
several large insurance companies, the
Charity Organization Society, United
Hebrew Charities and the Association
for the Improvement Of the CONDITION
Of the Poor.
Dr. N. B. Mcmillan, assistant sani-
,ary superintendent of the department
has been detailed to take charge OF
the work. which will be carried on by
1000 insurance visitors and many So
elal service workers and nurses. The
nurses will be from the stats Of the
societies or employed by the depart
ment with donations from them. They
will search for suspected cases OF In
iAntile paralysis and recommend what
ever action, such as the removal OF q
patient and quarantine of premises
thew consider necessary.
The work Of the insurance visitors
will be under the direction OF their
companies, but their reports will be
made 10 DR.. Mcmillan. They will dis
tribute literature on sanitation and the
prevention Of the spread Of the dis
ease, and will watch in all houses they
visit for possible cases Of sickness and
unelean or unsanitary conditions. Spe-
cial attention will be paid to the con-
dition Of alleys, sreawsys, air shafts
and dumb waiter shafts.
Inspections will be made twice Q
week, but none OF the workers will
visit houses where cases of infantile
paralysis have been found. These will
be watched by the departments own
feld staff.
Crisis in August.
Dr.. J. A. Amoss, of the Rockefeller
Institute, who is helping to fight the
disease in Westchester County, pre-
dicted last night in an address 70 nifty
physicians at White Plains Hospital
that the epidemic would reach its
height some time in August. and that
the number Of cases in September
would be about the same as in July,
with falling of in october and No
yember.
There are about eighty-seven cases
o. infantile paralysis in Westchester
County, thirty-six having been found
during the last two days. Five were
reported from North Tarrytown, the
home OF John d. Rockefeller. The
cases were diagnosed by DR.. Amoss.
': Eyerltt Macy, county superintendent
Of the poor, will ask the Board Of Su-
pervsors to-day for an appropriation
Of $4,000 for temporary isolation
hospital. II the appropriation is grant
Cd the hospital can receive patients in
week.
Eight new paralysis cases and one
qeath were reported to the State
health Department yesterday from
PAGES outside the greater city, bring
ing The total since the outbreak OF the
Epidemic 10 68S cases and So deaths.
Vne was found in a fresh air camp at
Di,eposit. The department ordered tina.
we ninety-hye children in the camp be
quarantined. Otisville had two cases
ana Oakland Valley, Menthe, Pelham,
vans Mills and Hurleyville one each.
Three cases were found in Bayonne
N sad TWO In Asbury Park. Reports from
new JERSEY ware ipcompiefe aS the
ofhces Of the State Board Of Health
were closed.
More than 1000 automobiles were
.uned back yesterday when they at
tempted 70 enter Nassau County from
Soeens. The health authorities sta
nohed guards 70 keep a strict watch