New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-21
PLAGUE REACHES
ADEATH RECORD
Disease Spread Slackens
as Eighty-seven Die in
Three Days.
ue NEW CASES BRING
TOTAL UP TO 2,446
Nurses Replace Policemen on
Ambulances-Ellis Island Too
Costly 10 Use.
..-...Ad announcement was brought

Renewed encouragement was brought
..,,rday to the health authorities
- announcement was made that the
I'D Of infsntile paralysis, more
a ssv by day since Sunday, had
q, slackened. But reports show
-. death rate record has been es-
ablished
One hundred and nineteen new cases
u,-e discovered during the twenty-four
,oyrs which ended at 10 o'clock yester-
s.v morning, decrease of twenty
.,rs. from the day before. Figures
u,-s lower for every borough but
o,,sns. During the last five days 5sS
r,,,, have been found, as against 665
q, the corresponding days of last
week
81 Die in Three Days.
D,spi,e the drop in the number Of
..,.s the mortality rate mounted high
=, han at any time since the outbreak
= the epidemic. Thirty-one deaths
v.r, reported to the Health Depart
rs,, bringing the total for the last
tbree days TO eighty-seven.
Eirhty-one cases were found in
B-ooklvn-one less than the day be-
.o-s Manhattan reported thirteen,
sro, Of fifteen; Richmond seven,
40, Of six, and The Bronx four, or
,vo less than Wednesday. Fourteen
eases were found in Queens, one more
than on the previous day.
The total Of cases for the epidemic
has climbed TO 2,446. of which 4s7, or
about one in every FIVE, have ended
fatally.
Health Commissioner Emerson point
% 70 three circumstances as GROUNDS
,or hope that the fight against the cpl
S.nie was meeting with success.
NJ ssid: There has been no in
ease in the number Of cases IN
prooklvn for the last three days there
has been no alarming increase IN any
o,ber borough and the spread OF the
disease has been confined for me last
twenty-four hours to parts OF the c''!
already infected
More Enter Plague Fight.
The Health Department, yesterday
.6ssd several physicians and nurses 10
;,s Rrooklyn and Manhattan stahs. re
doyblsd efforts will be made 10 isolate
sscb case as soon as IL is reported ana
70 follow up every person patients nave
bsen near. Enthusiastic response was
rsda nv policemen to Commissioner
Woods's call for twenty-five volunteers
fron, the bicycle and motorcycle SQUADS
- enforce quarantine measures one
bundred and sixty-eight men onereo
,beir services at morning roll call ana
MANY others, off duty at the time VOL
uttered upon their return 70 the STA
These policemen will patrol infected
d;s.ricts 10 enforce the Health Depart
r,ont's regulations, paying particular
attention TO all duarantined houses
One ~ their duties will be TO see that
o,,syantine signs are not removed as
II has been found. is often zone my
roTE will be continued as long as II
is thought necessary: 49,.
sixteen bicycle policemen have been
assigned 10 Brooklyn, three 10 hlch-
r,ond and three 70 The Bronx. Three
rotorcvcle men were sent TO queens
No special detail has yet been maze
for Manhattan.
Nurses for Ambulances.
Tbirtv-6ve additional policemen
were Yesterday assigned TO ard tne
having I'D reported cases. CommlS-
sioner Emerson announced that here
after nurses, instead of policemen VIII
accompany ambulances on calls Tor
naralvsis cases. During the first days
a. me endemic the Health Department
found il necessary to send every aVali-
able nurse TO the hospitals, so Jew were
the nurses and so fast dld patients
come in. but now its stan mas Oeeh
greatly enlarged by nurses VINO an
SnvTeons of the United States Pub
lie Healtb Service in New York de-
elared that because of the terms on
which Congress offered the use OF the
Ellis Island Hospital TO the city IL
seemed inadvisable 10 send patients
there A. the present time. The resoIu
tons OF the House and Senate, passed
about ten DAYS ago. provided that all
costs of the use Of the island were 10
ial. upon the city.
Ellis Island Too Costly.
The terms on which we could use
Ellis Island were not exactly as we
anticipated them" Commissioner I'm.
srson said. at would probably cost
Us twice as much TO keep chiIdren
there as in the city hospitals. Ihere
are now 1889 paralysis cases IN the
city hospitals and at Swinburne IslanG;
and We still have 1921 available beds.
1t had been supposed that there
would be 500 beds in the Ellls lslahd
hospital the Health Department could
use. 1t was said yesterday that aiter
accommodations were made for physl-
clans nurses. helpers and kitchen
staff there would be room for about
zoo beds only
Commissioner Emerson declared that
until August l no change would be
made in the order barring children un-
DER sixteen from motion picture inca
tres.
Thirteen surgeons Of the Federal SER