New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-05
Health Department Adopts
Specialist Plan of Ere
quent Inspections.
VISITING EXPERTS
END CONFERENCES
TX New Cases Yesterday Dis
may Acknowledgements
Bars Children Under 10.

s.ve studied the infantile parai-
-. endemic for the last two days a
...o.to.bouse search for cases OF the
H.,sse will be made in every part OF
-. lev where the Health Department
considers IL advisable.
Committees are already being organ
;,,d 10 superintend the work. Health
c.u.-,issioner Emerson said yesterday
and inspections twice WV" VIZ
As soon as possible. LII o,,,d ho
80 congested districts, but the best
p~S5er.,sl sections would not be over
$3.50 Every effort will be made TO
S,,.o,'cr report and isolate each case
e-,,tiv Inspections Will be carried
~ Nv social service workers and
nurses.
Health officers Discouraged.
uho, the conference OF specialists
.s;onrned Yesterday the outlook still
ssS..ssonraeed the health authorities.
o. hundred and seventy-tive new
ICES we're reported yesterday, de
c~ssse Of forty-twO from Thursdays
s..oT5 figure. but alarmingly high,
n.~srtbsless. Brooklyn had eighty
~ Manhattan ifty-two, Queens
,verty.eight The Bronx eight, and
Richmond three.
N' Tor.v.fve deaths were pported,
hr;nging the total for the epidemic to
nos Tine cases discovered TO date
r"-.ber 4s74. There are 1899 paralysis
nst;snts in hospitals, the department
announced. with 64s beds still avail
able CT. u,..L
;ngton Heights, the East Side not lar
rom Fifth Avenue and almost every
o,bsr section Of the borough again felt
,be snidemic's touch. One case was re-
norted from the Hotel Marie An
toinette. The victim Is bath maid
tbirty-seven years old, who lives on the
tor floor. She WAS removed lmme-
distely. c,.
Physicians Leave City.
Most OF the physicians who attended
III. conference left the city last night,
20 work out in their own laboratories
the theories put forward at the meet
ings. ,
tined at the patients homes and aided
in diagnosing suspected cases. They
.nproyed the Health Departments
Measures. but declared that scientific
method Of controlling the disease is
impossible al present. Their statement
said, in part:
Weight Of opinion favors the view
that infantile paralysis Is mainly
spread through personal contact ana
measures have been directed chiefly
from this point Of view. Cognizance,
however, has been given to additional
methods Of transmission, among which
is the bite Of insects. For sanitary
purposes II is proper to consider that
this disease is transmissible directly
from the sick 10 susceptible persons
or indirectly from the sick through
carriers.
Even with our incomplete knowl-
edge of the dissemination of the dis
ease. II is evident that in seeking TO
abste the epidemic stress must be
especially laid upon two things, as is
now being done: First. the early recog-
milton and notification of the dibease,
and second. the immediate isolation OF
patients and cases of suspicious Ill
ness.
Personal Hygiene Important.
Personal hygiene. cleanliness of per
son and surroundings and care OF food
which should be thoroughly cooked, /:
also Of great importance.
ave are Of opinion that satisfactory
isolation is secured only in hospitals
Not only is more thorough protection
secured for the public. but 1t is also
better for the patient.
There is still much to be learned
concerning the period Of incubation,
modes Of transmission and the length
OF time persons carry the infection. We
suggest the following problems as
especially desirable for investigation :
Methods Of culture Of the virus OF
poliomyeitis.
The microscopic study of the secre-
lions OF the nose and throat and OF the
Intestinal contents Of patients suffering
from poliomyelitis. persons who have
come in close contact with such pa
tents and others.
THE transmission Of the disease BY
insects and domestic animals and other
possible modes of transmission.
"The study of practical methods OF
disinfection."
Adrenalin Treatment Unseen.
DR.. Edward J. Birmingham, of the
New York Throat, Nose and Lung Hos
ptsl. said last might he was greatly
surprised that the physicians had not
examined the fifty paralysis patients
in the hospital who have been treated
with adrenalin, according to sugges-
tons Of Dr.. s. J. Meltzer, OF the
Rockefeller Institute.
Ameeting this morning at the Rocke-
Teller Institute of medical and hospi-
tal authorities Of New York and other
cities will consider the after care OF
patients, a large percentage OF whom
are expected 70 be so crippled as TO
require braces and treatments.
An active educational campaign was
Planned yesterday by Commissioner
Emerson and social service workers.
Another. appeal for toys and phono-
graphs was made yesterday by the
Health Department.
The children are lying i'll day after
aay, with nothing to amuse them,
said Dr. Charles F. Bolduan. zone
nat can lift only his forearm can have
me time Of his life with rag doll.
monographs are, Of course, always en-
,er'aining. We can use only new toys,
10Y We cannot be sure that old ones
are Tree from Infection
Thirty Ne> Cases Outside.
ihirty new paralysis cases at places
9u'slde the city were reported yester-
gay TO the State Health Department,
MAKING total Of SIS, with ffty-three
Se4'hs, since the outbreak of the cpl
upenie Hampstead reported three,
paeyion, Huntington. Yonkers. New
ScSlgh' Walden. Valley Stream and
zen Cove, two EACH Marlborough,
SshSlli, Hancock. Utica, De Witt, Cold
Tnngs, New Rochelle, Hicksville,
S,'oeh'andale Oceanside. Sharon
Nprlhgs, Glenwood and Athens.
n'W%yfour cases were reported TO
.,t new Jersey Board Of Health. New
a.. mad eighteen; lrvington, four;
0.muen, Deerfeld East Orange. South