Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-15
NEW CASE OF |NFANT|LE
PARALYSIS DISCOVERED
Wallace c. Branch. Nineteen Months
Old, Is Removed to Virginia
Hospital.
CAME HERE FROM HANOVER
Had Been Spending Past Montl, ut
Peak-Source of Contagion OF
Richmond's Second Case Not Yet
Determined.

Another case OF infantile paralysis
was discovered in Richmond yes,er-
day and. like the only other. was i'm
ported. the patient and mother coming
mere from Peak. hanover County, ac-
cording to facts ascertained by DIR.
L. c. Levy, Chief Health Officer. Tho
child was completely ISOLATED nj the
Virginia Hospital. where every possi-
bic attention will be rendered.
The patient is Wallace c.. Branch.
the ninetcen-months-old son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. n. c. Branch, of Goa North Twcn.
ty-second Street, who, with his mother.
has been at Peak for the past month.
The case was pronounced to be more
OF the acute than epidemic type, and
II Is believed that the boy will re-
cover.
Attention Of the Health Department
was called to the case late Yesterday
afternoon by DR.. Mcguire Newton. Mrs.
Branch had visited his office ana he
was certain, from a hasty diagnosis.
that the disease was the same which
has tcrroriZed Now York and other
Eastern cities. diagnosis later nv Dr.
Levy and DR.. r. Il. Summers. medical
inspector, left no doubt as to the ma
turc of tho malady. and tho boy was
promptly taken to the hospital.
CHILD BECAME Ill.
NINE DAYS AGO
According to tho history of the case,
supplied by Mrs. Branch. her, son he
came i'll nine days ago, and two DAYS
a~ftcrward the right leg was affected.
The child had been In the country
t~wcnty-three days when the first signs
Oh the illness became manifest. It Is
an established fact that the longest
period of incubation OF i%nfanttlc pa
ralysis is fourteen days. This leaves
no u that the disease was contract
cd while tho child WAS In Hanover.
An older brother and sister showed no
signs OF illness. They arc still at
Peak.
Satisfied thai the disease was not
contracted in Richmond, DR.. Levy did
not deem 1t necessary to quarantine
tho family homo on Twcnty-second
street. Mrs. Rranch did not visit Il
yesterday.
There can be no question that tho
l'ranch child did not contract the af-
Fiction from little Myra montgomery
who's" case was reported to the authori-
lies three weeks ago Yesterday. She
had then been in Richmond but two
days. having come, with her mother.
from Philadelphia. and was stopping at
III North Thirty-sccond Street. Tho
Branch boy vas then in the country.
t'l ntT
death having occurred last week.
PHYSICIANS BELIEVE
CRISIS las PASSED
special quarters at the hospital wero
prepared for the care OF the boy, and
no fear is entertained that the disease
VIII spread. The crisis OF his attack.
physicians believe, has passed.
That little Douglas Williamson. OF
Gig North Twenty-h-st Street. was not
n victim of infantile paralysis. was
made certain yesterday by n post
inortcm examination. tho child diving
yesterday morning at the contagious
pavilion at the City Home.
1t was with reluctance that his par
cntS consented to the autopsy, but
when they were told of the service
they would be rendering the public
ana the health authorities, who are
striving In every way to prevent an
outbreak OF the plague In this CITY,
they consented. They were assured nv
Dr. Levy and DIR. Summers that such
II course was the only certain method
to definitely establish tho cause of
their sons death. Thus II was con-
clisivcly established that the boys
death was due to tubercular mcnin-
gifts and not ~poliomyelitis, as had been
at first suspected.