The evening world., 1916-07-17
COOLER WEATHER
BRINGS DECREASE
IN PLAGUE DEATHS



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turned to his ONCE to-day and lmme-
diately held a conference with hcalth
Commissioner Emerson as 60 tho best
methods Of police cooperation. lie
also arranged for n conference with
street Cleaning Commissioner Fether-
ston for this afternoon. With the same
purpose In view. As soon as he Ia
acquainted with the details OF tho
situation Commissioner Woods es-
poets to continue the campaign with
added activity.
DIR. &. y. Banks. Dr. Charles n.
I.avinder and other members OF the
Federal Public Health Service opened
an ONCE to-day In Room No. t25 In
the old Post once Building. where
they began the work OF regulating
inter- state travelling. This bureau
will furnish health certificates to
parents wishing TO send children out
Of tho city.
The Bureau OF Public Health In
Washington to-day sent to Dr. Banks
a supply OF $4,000 postal cards with
blanks to be filled In when the cards
are mailed to health authorities of
cities where New York people 70 with
their children. The card reads a.
follows:
New York, ........... 1915.
To the Health Officer at (point
OF destination)
The person named below left
New York to-day.
Name NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Point of destination. on................
Local address at point Of destina-
ton .......,.............
Number OF children under fifteen
years fage accompanying. ........
This information Is furnished
you on account OF the present out
break OF poliomyelitis-infan
paral ysis--in New York City.
} Respectfully.
RUPERT BLUE,
: Surgeon General. U. S. Public
{ Health Service.
There was line Of parents an'
2 children half way around the blocl
) at the ONCE OF the Brooklyn Boar
q OF Health this morning. waiting to b
; examined for permission to leave tn
4 city. Realizing the danger OF con
= taEion In such = gathering ~ THU
:. the health officers decided to adopt
: new system o-morrow and make a
q applicants report to local bureaus q
4 tabiished in each Of tho districts Int
which the city has been divided. Tn
location OF these bureaus VIII be an
nounced.
There are now Sss cases of infantil
paralysis being treated In Health de
partment hospitals. 76' In other cit
hospitals. 225 In private hospitals an
25 in the hospital on Swinburne Isl
and. The Board OF Health has ~
} vacant beds listed as available Il
handling new cases which may deve
op. OF this number 800 are ON Ell
Island. At the Queensborough Ho'
pital fifteen additional beds will bs
- come available to-day.
ID DR. Alvah II. Doty. with thirt
in nurses. nve doctovs and an otn'
force. established himself with Il
y Brooklyn Board OF Health to-day
IN begin administering tho $4,000 dom
a ton given by the Rockefeller Inst
"a tute for combating the epidemic.
At st. AIMS Roman Cathol
RI Church, No. ll2 East Twelfth Stree
m where the feast OF st. Ann Is beiI
m celebrated. increasing crowds OF wo
shippers, principally mothers wi
children, attended the masses held
- o'clock and o'clok this mornil
:" and vt l.30 o'clock this afternoo
Father John IL. Southwick. who l.
" In the prayers for the protection
u children, said that he expected abo
t. u thousand more worshippers To O
e. tend the o'clock service tonight.
:, similar services were held at I
Church OF 81. John the Baptist. lie
RS ington Avenue and Sixty-sixth Sire
US DIR. Abraham Saphian. who has be
fW with the New York Board Of Heal
- for many years. went 10 Bridgepo
m nu Conn, to-day to assume charge of I
,s' situation there. The health autho
"a ties of bridgeport are taking exec
,aJ tional precautions to prevent the d
,o, ease from getting foothold, IL
night one OF the nurses guarding
roads leading into Bridgeport stopI
". n delivery van and discovered IN
New York children asleep in II.
followed the children to the address
In, which they were bound, the home
~" relatives, and they Will be kept un
'hu strict supervision.
ose George W. Perkins, President OF
Of Palisades Interstate Park Comm
sis, sion, has taken up with the
ght Jersey authorities the question
rn- raising the quarantine against
Fri York children established IN I
ped park. lie believes the children '
Ash 20 there seldom return into the co
ours try and that SO long as they con
hey themselves to tn. park there IL "
danger of cOatas on belNs spread.