New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-12
Lowest Record Since July
5-Only Nine Victims
Died Yesterday.
SAFE FOR SCHOOLS
TO OPEN ON SEPT. %
Spread of Paralysis Is
Stopped in Richmond
and The Bronx.

Only twenty-five new cases OF IN
fantle paralysis-the smallest Hst
published since June 26-were reported
TO the Health Department yesterday
Nine persons died from the plague
Not since July has this low record
been equalled. Forty-four cases and
fourteen deaths were reported Sunday.
With the further relaxing OF the
plaques grip, Health Commissioner
Haven Emerson notified the Board OF
Education it would be safe TO open the
city schools September 25. He also IN
formed the authorities Of Columbia
that the proposed postponemnt OF the
university's opening was no longer
necessary.
Especially pleasing TO the commits
sioner were the reports from Brook
lyn, where only two cases were found,
and from Richmond, which has been
free from new cases of the epidemic
for two days. He believes this lndi-
Gates the Nsease is dying out in these
two boroughs. For the first time in
many weeks The Bronx also had no
new plague cases.
Safe to Open Schools.
The slackening Of the epidemic will,
the commissioner believes, enable the
citv to take into its hospitals children
now quarantined at home for lack OF
room in the institutions. It Is also
hoped those in private hospitals may
be turned over to the city for treat
ment.
"The situation is certainly very en-
couraging," DR.. Emerson said, "and the
endemic seems to be going down as
fast as we could reasonably expect
it to-
Regarding the opening Of the schools
the commissioner said;
1--WE feel perfectly safe in taking
this course. If there were twenty-five
cases of scarlet fever in the city, we
would not feel alarmed or postpone
school opening. There are over SOC
public schools in New York City.
TWENTY-FIVE cases a day would be only
about one child in each twenty-five
schools. Only a minority of the chill
dren affected are Of school age, how
ever. Il might be no eXaggeration TO
saw that on the basis of twenty-five re
ported cases day, only one in 100000
would be found in the schools
No "Straus Babies" Ill.
The fund to buy braces for crippled
children received s70.24 yesterday,
swelling the total contributed to S5l'-
623.GS.
Nathan Straus wrote TO Surgeon
General Rupert Blue yesterday, calling
attention 10 the fact that Of the 1000
babies receiving milk at the stations
maintained by him throughout the
CITY not one contracted the plague.
81 submit this to you and 10 your
associates" his letter reads, inviting
YOUR examination of the records OF my
eighteen milk depots, hoping you will
find in the freedom of the 'Straus
babies from infantile paralysis a
demonstration Of the utility of this
method in preventing this terrifying
plague"
Seventy-one cases and three deaths
from infantile paralysis were reported
in New York State, outside this city,
during the forty-eight hours ending at
D. m. Yesterday. The cases by coun-
ties are: Westchester, II; Onondaga,
y: Nassau, Z; Tompkins and Orange,
> each; Cortland, Oswego and Orange,
! each: Suffolk and Madison, 3 each;
+ Tioga. Montgomery and Ulster, each
and Washington, Wyoming, Duchess,
/ Warren, jefferson, Delaware, Sullivan
and Rockland, ! each
Thirty-four New Jersey Cases.
In New Jersey, the thirty-four new
cases Of paralysis reported yesterday
were distributed as follows;
Newark, :; Trenton, New Bruins
wick. Long Branch, Ocean Grove, :
each: Moonachie Borough, Lodi,
/ Camden. Collingswood, Gloucester,
I Haddonfeld, Haddon Heights, Ocean
City, Nutley, South Orange, Wenonah'
/ Jersey City, Hampton, Fair Haven,
Montville township, Union township,
Union County, Westfeld, l each.
New Cases-Manhattan.
ia Thompson Street. 3l9 West
Thirty-ffth Street, 444 West Nineteenth
( Street, 1909 Second Avenue, 538 East
Eighty-ffth Street, 1853 Amsterdam
Avenue (2), 1927 Amsterdam Avenue,
AL West Forty-ninth Street, 273 West
Forty-seventh Street, 500 West Fifty
first Street, 435 West Fifty-fourth
Street. 446 West Fifty-seventh Street,
2l64 Second Avenue, POOP Second Ave
nue., 240l Second Avenue, 1880 Lexing-
ton Avenue (2), 339 East 12lst Street,
/ 22g East 10th Street, 119 Greenwich
1 Avenue, 10 Jones Street, 32l East
/ Fourth Street 90, 154l Avenue A, 2ll5
/ Eighth Avenue, col West 139th Street,
/ 306 East 18th Street, 2149 Second Ave-
nue., POS West 18th Street.
Observation-Disclosures.
$50 West Twenty-eighth Street, Alb
| West Twenty-siXth Street. 1873 East
/ Twenty-ffth Street, 10 West Sixty
/ first Street: 1873 Park Avenue, 220
/ Thompson Street. 443 East Seventy
/ fifth Street, $50 East 12lst Street, 229
! East Sixty-seventh Street, 345 East
/ Forty-ninth Street. 230 Monroe Street,
1873 East Seyenty-fourth Street, 1856
I West Fifteenth Street, 243 East Eighty
third Street.
New Cause.-The Bronx.
525 Union Street (2), 81 Perry
/ Street, 1889 Parker Street, 1916 Ohm
stead Avenue, 664 East l49th Street,
ia <. AIMS Avenue