Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-08-05

For an hour and half Friday after
noon a score of health officers from
the towns of New London county went
over the infantile paralysis situation
at a gathering in this city with Health
Officer Edward J. Brophy and after
considerable amount of informal dis
cGssion and the presentation of the
problems from various viewpoints, the
physicians were unanimous in their
decision that for the best interests Of
eastern Connecticut the quarantine
and preventive measures that are be-
ing enforced should be continued il all
the towns and made as rigid and etd
cient as is possible. The officials re-
garded the conditions in the county as
serious and worthy of their best aCten-
ton, but there was also the general
feeling that the strict exclusion which
is now being practiced in the case of
all children from New York and all
districts where the disease is epidemic
is bringing results that are as salts
factory as can be hoped for.
Many Towns Were Represented.
DR. Brophy presided at the meeting,
and besides an excellent representa-
ton of the health officers, Dr.. John T
Black, secretary of the state board OF
health, County Health officer Arthur
NJ. Brown Of Jewatt City and a num-
Der of the first selectmen Of various
towns were there.
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The doctors told of their individual
experiences and problems and Secre-
tary Black described the way the sit
uatiOn was being handled in other
parts of the state. He spoke OF the
work that the federal authorities are
now doing in New York city and he
expressed the opinion that the health
certificates issued by the United States
public health service should be hon
Ored, following the changes that went
into effect on July Is. He said that on
Friday there were $50 cases of in
fantile paralysis in the state of Con-
nectiCut.
Vote for Strict Quarantine.
Or. Chapman advocated a strict
quarantine in order to eliminate every
danger from within our borders and he
was strongly against letting the bars
down by any change in the present
stringent regulations. When it came
to vote ali the health officials back
ed him up unanimously. The New
London heslth officer gave a vivid de-
scriptiOn of the manner in which they
have worked at that gateway to east
err Connecticut and said that $1,000
had thus far been expended in the
work. In the work of guarding Nor
wich against the epidemic DIR. Brophy
stated that about $500 had been spent.
80 Children in One Lebanon Barn.
Conditions in Lebanon were de-
scribed by the first seIectman of that
town who told Of a mass meeting
that had been held there Thursday
night to see if action could not be
taken against some of the Jewish
boarding house keepers there who are
crowded with summer bOardeTs from
New York city. He told how one
woman from New York had come to
one boarding house keeper and offered
$50 for herself and two children to
c-fa -rrnp1- n ha
a copy Of telegram sent by another
proprietor of a boarding house sent
to New York people, telling them that
he would keep them if they could get
through the lines. It was stated that
there are 300 children from New York
in Lebanon, so being housed in one
barn. There have already been four
or five cases of infantiIe paralysis
there: and three deaths. A meeting
was held in Lebanon Friday night at
which steps were taken to appropriate
money and remedy the existing con-
dition.