New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Method Called Best Pre-
ventive-Forty Children
Treated Yesterday.
PATIENTS GAINING,
SAYS DR.. ZINGHER
DR.. Banks May Take Steps
Toward Keeping Babies from
Asbury Park Parade.

Serum obtained from the blood of per-
sons who have recovered from infantlIe
PARALYSIS has been injected by Dr.
Abraham Zingher into the veins Of for
" children. patients at Willard Parker
Hospital. Nine were treated with the
serum yesterday. after DR.. Zingher had
drawn sixteen ounces Of blood from
the bodies of three volunteers who an
swered the Department Of Health's ap-
peal.
Careful study Of the children re-
Gently treated has sustained the con-
viction Of officials and physicians that
the serum forms the best known meth
cd Of preventing the disease and fight
ing it after it has obtained foothold.
It is now believed that this treatment
will be especially beneficial as a pre-
ventive vaccine.
Two Types Are Treated.
DR.. Zingher is using the serum on
two types of paralysis cases-those IN
the premonitory stages and those
frankly paralyzed. In the former the
GOOD results of the treatment have
been more noticeable, although it was
stated at the hospital yesterday that
three children Of the latter type, with
their limbs paralyzed and paralysis
starting in the chest, had partially re-
Gained the use of their limbs. The
further spread of the paralysis has
stoned. Of the nine treated yester-
day six have not yet developed paraly-
sis.
So gratifying have been the results
Of the serum treatment that Health
Department officials announced yester-
day that as soon as a sufficient guam
titv of it could be obtained 1t would
form part Of the equipment Of the ply
sicians and diagnosticians who are
combating the disease in the field. BY
thus giving the treatment in the early
stages. it is believed much progress
will be made toward preventing the
spread of the paralysis.
With the exception of Richmond,
where the spread Of the plague appears
TO have been checked. reports from the
n ssrious boroughs yesterday showed
that the number of new cases con-
tinued 10 hover near the high water
mark. There were 1873 reported
throughout the city, of which SO were
in BROOKLYN. 81 in Manhattan-a new
record for that borough-31 in Queens,
9 in The Bronx and none in Richmond.
Fifty-two deaths we're reported. Brook
lvn had 27, Manhattan Is, Queens and
The Bronx and Richmond l each. OF
the total cases, 2,749 are now in hos
pitfalls. and the department has avail
able 336 beds.
Stricter Quarantine Adopted.
Owing to the marked increase of
the number Of cases in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, those states announced
Yesterday the establishment of stricter
quarantine regulations. The State
Board of Health of New Jersey has de-
cided TO quarantine the state against
children under sixteen years of age,
beginning August 10. ana viii also pro
hihit children under siNcccn from trav-
cling from one tOWu TO duONHtI Wltulu
the state without health certificates.
In Pennsylvania n thousand inspectors
are guarding state lines and railroad
centres.
To obtain the advice and assistance
of the United States Public Health Ser
vice, Dr. George King STROBE, Of the
Pennsylvania State Board of Health,
Yesterday held a conference here with
DR.. Charles +. Banks, senior surgeon.
The situation was gone over carefully,
and the inspection work being done
here was explained 10 DR.. STROBE.
Dr. Banks declared yesterday that
restrictive measures were contemplated
TO prevent New York children from at
tending the annual Plattdeutscher
Volkfest Verein SchuetZenfest at North
Bergen. y. j., to be held soon He
also said his attention had been direct
ed TO the action of the Mayor of As
bury Park in urging New Workers TO
bring their children TO that town, and
also urging parents to enter their
babies for the Asbury Park baby
parade.
Scheme Called Dangerous.
"Such dangerous advertising
scheme is fraught with peril" he ex-
planned. "Such an ill-considered and
useless affair as this baby show is a
serious matter under present condi-
lions. II is likely that energetic re-