New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
PLAGUE GAINS III
NEW CASES In DAY
Continued from page l

ways to oppose the disease, to Commits
sioner Emerson.
Yesterday afternoon almost all the
visiting physicians went through the
paralysis wards of Willard Parker Hos
pital. examining different types OF
cases. They also attended one OF the
clinics which are held each day at the
hospital.
Commissioner Emerson said that the
visitors would not leave the city until
they had made suggestions TO the
Health Department, which will be I'M
doubtedly useful in its efforts to con-
troll the plague. -
This morning the physicians will
visit suspected cases with Health De-
partment diagnosticians. Another gen
eral meeting will be held at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons this after
noon.
Commissioner Emerson yesterday
made public the case rate to date OF
the epidemic in the five boroughs, &C
cordng to population; 1t is based on
each 600 persons. That in The Bronx
is "a; in Manhattan, .26; in Queens
1928; in Brooklyn, 1.34; in Richmond,
POI.
at is noticeable" the Commissioner
said, chat the most sparsely settled
borough shows the highest case rate.
DR.. Wade H. Frost, of the United
States Public Health Service, has de-
clared, following his study of epidem-
les Of infantle paralysis, that the rate
seldom exceeds one in 1000 people, but
r this opinion was calculated on previ-
GUS knowledge Of the distribution of
the disease. The Health Department is
confident that a greater proportion OF
the actual number of true cases is be-
ing found and reported than IN any
other epidemic anywhere.
However, with the mortality at 20
per cent, il is evident that We are deal
ing with the most severe type OF the
disease. The case rate for the whole
city has already almost reached one IN
a thousand"
Menace Gains Out Of Town.
Thirty-eight new paralysis cases at
places outside the city were reported
Yesterday to the State Health Depart
ment, making total of 545, with oil
deaths. since the outbreak of the cpl
,lemic. Hampstead reported 8, Pough-
keepsie 4, Hancock 4, Roslyn 3, Beacon,
Mombaccus, New Rochelle, Bingham
ton, Port Chester, Syracuse and West
bury 2 each; Great Neck, Saugerties,
Hilisdale. Manhasset, Laurens, Thomp-
son, Highland and Ogdensburg each.
Sixty-two cases were reported TO the
New Jersey Board of Health. Newark
had twenty-eight; North bergen, nVe;
Jersey City, four; Union Hill, Gutten-
burg, West Hoboken, Bayonne, west
New York. Princeton, New brunswick,
Spring Lake and Bound Brook, two
] Al Eurfn
Bay Head. Highlands, Hopewel and
Elizabeth. one each. The total for the
state is 744. g..
Nine cases OF infantile paralysis
were found in Philadelphia yesterday.
New Brunswick, n. j., health au-
thorities have barred all persons from
entering the city, except 20 pass
through. Children visiting in New
Brunswick have been given three days
in which TO leave.
The following list Of addresses " here
cases of infsntile paralysis have been
found recently was made public yester-
day by the Health Department:
Manhattan.
100 Attorney Street, 16 Broome
Street, Is Catherine Street, +O9 Cherry
Street, 230 Christopher Street, 80 Cor
nelia Street, 326 Delaney street, 10
East Broadway, 22s East Broadway, 100
Essex Street, 1876 First Avenue, 81
Grove Street, 4S Hester Street, 81 and
"a Jackson Street, 33l Madison Street,
60 and III Mott Street, 239 Mulberry
street. 1853 Orchard Street, S74 PARK
Avenue. IS Rose Street, 20 Rutger.
Place. 1872 Second Avenue, 80, II, "a
and rs Sullivan Street, l59 and lloZ
Third Avenue, IS Washington Place and
s Water Street. c
Also II and rs East Fourth Street,
4ls East Eighth Street, l2S and 64O
East Eleventh Street, 52l East Thir-
tenth Street, cog East Sixteenth Street
two cases., 32S East Twenty-second
Street, POI East East Twenty-seyenth
Street. 225 East Twenty-ninth Street
900 East Thirtieth Street. 52s East
Seventy-second Street. 400 East Seven
ty-ffth Street, $50 East Seventy-sey-
enth Street. 9 East Ninety-seyenth
Street. l56 East 18th Street, ITO and
eos East 1lSth Street, 400 East lZlst
Street, lO9 East 130th Street.
A. osO IVES. Twentieth Street. 46i