New-York tribune., 1916-07-10
Fight on Dirt to Last
Until Paralysis Out
break Ends.
19 DIE IN DAY;
SO NEW CASES
1000 Members of Home
Defence League Aid
Police Searches.

II it Is possible to check the spread
OF infantile paralysis by making things
so clean that the disease will have no
place 10 breed, New York City is going
20 do H.
Yesterday. at the call of the Mayor,
heads Of city departments met in con-
ference in the Bar Association and
planned a cleanup campaign TO elimi-
nate dirt The police were instructed
20 see that every resident of the five
boroughs did all in his power for clean
streets, clean houses and clean yards.
Failure TO obey the sanitary laws will
lead to immediate arrest and arralgn-
ment before a magistrate.
Seated at the head OF the conference
table. Mayor Mitchell spread out before
him the Health Departments latest re-
ports Of the progress OF the plague
eighty-eight new cases and nineteen
deaths we're reported yesterday and
told Health Commissioner Emerson,
Acting Police Commissioner Cooley,
Street Cleaning Commissioner Fether-
ston. Tenement House Commissioner
Murphy and Water Supply Commits
sioner Williams that vigorous coopera-
tion was the need of the moment.
No Let-Up in Campaign.
There is to be no let-up in the war
fare until the disease is driven out.
Every city department will bend every
effort 10 the accomplishment of this.
In statement made at the close OF
the conference the Mayor declared that
accumulations Of refuse containing gar
bage in the streets were solely the
product OF violations of city ordinances
bv householders, who. despite repeated
warnings. insisted on throwing the ma
terial into the streets instead OF col
lecting it in proper receptacles as re-
quired by law.
IL have specifically directed" said
Mayor Mitchell, that any householder,
storekeper or other person found de-
hosting garbage or rubbish in the
streets is 10 be arrested and arraigned
before magistrate. am requesting
the chief city magistrate 10 urge ms
colleagues TO cooperate with the city
authorities in enforcing tho law and to
impress its importance upon vlols'orS
by adequate penalties.
A marked decrease in the attendance
at churches and Sunday schools OF the
East Side and the most injected ots-
tricts of Brooklyn was evidence OF inc
fear the epidemic has caused among
narents throughout the city. The loss
Il N rhnrCNpa
fifth Avenue and the upper West SIDE,
Lnt even there tho shadow Of the out
break fell.
Warnings from Pulpits.
From many pulpits warnings of the
Health Department against lnfantiie
naralysis were read with the letter
from Commissioner Emerson to pas
tors asking that children and ADULTS
f,or, infected houses be barred from
houses of worship.
For the Health Department yester-
dav was the busiest Sunday in years
Al 10 o'clock in the morning fourteen
automobiles. containing twenty-hVe
doctors. left its Brooklyn offices TO
diagnose reported suspected cases
Visiting health officers from Boston,
Newark and other cities went with the
nbysic;ans to study diagnosis meas
urcs the department is taking IN us
fgbt TO check the spread of the plague;
IL Manhattan the same tasks faced
smaller squad of physicians, SINCE
This borough has fewer cases thah
Rrooklyn. but sixty-fve inspectors or
the Food and Drug Bureau OF the
Health Department, under the directioh
of Lucius ?. Brown, searched tne les
taurants and lunch rooms OF tne hass
side and watched food ana beverage
venders. who swarmed through ,he
streets and alleys, for violations OF 'ne
Sanitary Code. ... ,hors ~
Two thousand citizen meHoers u
the Home Defence League oevoDeH
.hoir dav to aiding the police search
sn. ,,;olations of the code. As result
- tbeir work four hundred summonses
80 served. returnable in the Iomos
nJ Fssex Market courts this morning
League Members Praised.
pol;ce CAPTAINS joined in praising
80 league members for assistance they
~ tne 30 nolicemen on duty. One hun
saod summonses were served in Coney
Island though the police discovered
,,ioia.ions Of the order barring chill
L., G under sixteen from sideshows and
mot;on picture theatres under danger
from ro infantile paralysis in past
Tho limited States Public Health
c,,;oo no will begin to-day laboratory
oeis,rb oSeloarcb work to determine. if possible,
.es'~ rs msvs in which the disease is car,
rne risd "I4 Headquarters for the six skilled
REQ. rec Investigators. who, under the
disecfv disection of DR.. c. H. Leyinder. con
i,.,o direr.,oub ,be staff of the Federal service
Setsiled TO aid the Health Department
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