New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-21
Women and Children Are
Among Volunteers in
Serum Call.
DEATH DECREASE
CHEERS EMERSON
Hastings Bars 500 Young
sters in Day--POlice
Guard Highways.

| Twenty-slx fewer cases or ihIahtns
paralysis were reported yesterday than
on Saturday, and sixteen fewer deaths
Yesterdays new cases numbered loS
and the deaths totallcd twenty.
DR.. Haven Emerson. City Health
Commissioner, said yesterday that, be-
ginning to-day, a station would be es'
tablished at the Kingston Avenue Hos
pital, in Brooklyn, where residents Of
! that borough who had recovered from
infantile paralysis might 90 and have
their blood drawn TO make immune
serum for the treatment Of the victims
Of the present epidemic.
DR.. Joseph A. Regain will be in charge
Of the Brooklyn station, and will be as
sisted by several physicians who have
been aiding Dr. Abraham Zingher in the
preparation of the serum at the Will
lard Parker Hospital.
Brooklyn Volunteers Aid.
This action was taken by the Health
DEPARTMENT because of the large num-
Ter of former paralysis patients now
living in Brooklyn who have volun-
teered to give their blood, but who ola
not like to make the trip to Manhattan
It is likely that the serum made IN
Brooklyn will be used in the treatment
Of Brooklyn children i'll with the
disease, most of whom are patients at
the Kingston Avenue Hospital.
The citizens committee, formed by
Lewis L. Delafeld, jr, and others VINO
orc eager to do something for the
paralysis patients, will begin its work
Ct collecting blood to-day. More tnan
81 600 has been raised by the commit
toe TO defray the expenses of sending
rbvsicians to the homes of former pa
TENTS and to provide automobiles ior
those who prefer to have their blood
drawn at the hospitals.
A letter of appeal will be sent out to-
Gav bv the Health Department ad-
dressed to each of the 300 former
PARALYSIS patients whose names are on
the records of the department. II this
opneal docs not bring enough responses
70 assure an adequate supply it is like
" that members Of the citizens COM
mittee will make personal calls upon
! former patients and impress upon them
! the urgent necessity Of obtaining more
/ blood.
Plea for Blood.
/ In its appeal the Department Oh
Health emphasizes the fact that the OPP
Grafton of drawing it is simple, pam
less and has no i'll after-etects. IL re-
/ ouires but a few minutes, and can be
performed by any physician. The SUP
! iect merely bares his arm. ruooeI,
/ hand is placed about it, and the blood
/ ia drawn with a syringe from the vein
thus enlarged. The physician rubs al
cohol over the tiny puncture IN the
skin and that is all there is - It,.
Thirteen ounces of immune blood and
seven ounces of normal were drawn
from four persons by DR.. Zingher at
} tho willard Parker Hospital yesterday
five ounces were given by Miss Flor
ence Sweeney, eighteen years OLD, OF
/ CLAYTON Place, Jamaica, Long lsIahu'
who had the disease when she was TWO
wears old. Theodore Corrlgan, eleven
wears old, Of Clayton Place, gave TWO
/ ounces. ,;.oI
The boy was brought to the hospltai
I by his mother, Mrs. Anna NJ Corrisam,
who requested DR.. Zingher to draw
from her veins seven ounces OF horlna,
blood for the use in treating patients
u;,H rormai serum. The fourth volun..
49, Was Mrs. Anna Dutsch, who said
sh. had had a mild form Of facial
paralysis when child. Sne gave si'>
ounces. 1;,,hor
In a statement last night DR.. Zingnes,
again emphasized the necessity OF
trsatinr children with the immune
serum as soon as possible after the pre-
Iiminary diagnosis has been conhrmed
and tbe presence of infantile paralysis
has been confirmed. DR.. Zingher mas
Thus far treated 100 children, and the
greatest Improvement has been oo-
served in cases where the disease was
in the premonitory stages.
Emerson Is Encouraged.
Health Commissioner Emerson de-
clared yesterday that he was greatly
encouraged by the marked drop in the
number of new cases and deaths re-
ported yesterday in comparison WIN
the figures for the two previous sun
days. 30.
On August 10 the FIVE boroughs re-
ported l41 new cases and y deaths,
and on August there were i92 ne"
cases and 33 deaths. A marked de-
crease is shown in yesterdays reports,
in all boroughs but Richmond ana
Queens. Richmond had an increase OF
one in the number of new cases ana
Queens an increase of one IN the num-
Der Of deaths.
As compared with those Of the TWO
previous Sundays, the reports from
Manhattan and Brooklyn were espe-
cially gratifying, and sustained the
conviction of the Department OF
Health officials that in the latter Dor,
ough. at least, the disease has passed
it's high-water mark and is now reced,
ing. On August Manhattan mad
forty-fve new case and twelve deaths;
on August 10 there were forty-nine
new cases and ten deaths. and yester,
day only thirty-seven new cases aho
nine deaths were reported.
In new cases reported brooNyn
dropped from ninety-three on August
s and fifty-four on August ID to forty
Yesterday, and from eight deaths or
August 10 to six yesterday.