Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-21

Continued from Pare One
the cat In connection with this epidemic,
remembering that II required rs years of
study for the discovery that the rnt-borne
flea scattered the bubonic plague.
These dirty stray cats that stink about
alleys and are picked up by children should
be extermlnated The police have the
power in their hands TO get rid OF them and
should like to see this power exercised. No
cows or chickens are allowed in the con-
gested districts. while the cat, which, no
one will deny, is more dangerous, 10 allowed
perfect freedom"
Chief McCrudden saw connection be-
tween the facts that most Of the infantile
paralysis victims are children between two
and six years old and that these same
children are fonder of cats than children
of other ages. In particular the children
like sick cats, ecause they are more docile
and make better" playmates
Today's report brought the total deaths
to Sc and the total cases 20 299.
DEATHS TODAY
ABRAHAM YoRTNER. 2 years old. s1s Ne
STELLA HGssUcK years old. 2214 GUNNER
SsS STREET. Whose 10 ods SS Sda
NEW CASES TODAY
EDWARD. HOFFMAN, months old. 2s1s
- NoTth, Tyeniiy,fith 4; t,h street =, ,,, ,,
street.
Two deaths and three new cases were
reported In Camden and vicinity today.
Evelyn Stanton, S.year.old daughter of the
Rev. Frank Stanton. pastor OF the Third
Baptist Church. Broadway and Webster
streets, was one victim. She died last night
at wildwood. The body will be brought
by automobile TO the Stanton home. at
and High streets, today. The
other victim. 2.year-old daughter of
Joseph Cheesman, of Magnolia, died Satur-
day. but tho death was not reported then.
The first case was reported today In Had
donheld. Miriam Braddock. years old of
Lee street. is stricken. other new cases
were those of Albert Clay, 15 years old,
1912 Fillmore street, Camden, and n negro
child named Gray. at Lawnside.
Hope that the injection OF human blood
serum is stumbling block to lnfantlle
paralysis came today from New York, where
a decrease Of one-half in the death rate of
victims treated with serum was reported.
The eyes OF medical Philadelphia, there
FORE and OF all Philadelphia, are focused
on the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious
Diseases. There the fast-growing supply
of human blood serum Is being injected as
rapidly as possible into the patients.
From a death rate OF 22.7 per cent in
the entire city of Now York to a rate of
10 per cent among the patients treated with
serum in the Willard Parker Hospital is
the fact upon which physicians base their
hope that serum may be the clue to the
solution of the puzzling plague. But It Is as
yet only hope. Even the physicians who
injected the serum say that the results are
only tentative and that no conclusions may
be set down as authoritative.
SERUM METHOD.
The serum, which is obtained from the
so-called "immunized blood" of personi
mostly adults, who years ago recoverti
from infantile paralysis. was injected In o
moro than one hundred children with tie
disease. out OF every ten one child di I'd.
The scope of the experiment now is bL.ng
wldened in the New York hospital, where
the serum is being injected into the cir.
culations Of patients newly stricken.
In the Philadelphia Hospital for Con-
taglous Diseases immunized blood serum,
taken from normal persons who have re-
covered from infantile paralysis, has been
injected into the little bodies OF l5 pa
tients. both boys and girls according to
Dr. Theodore Le Boutilller. of the star.
The effect Of the treatment is being watched
with the greatest interest and more serum
will be injected as soon as additional volun-