New-York tribune., 1916-07-11
ID DIE AS PLAGUE
SPREADS In CITY
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New York outside Of the greater city
were reported yesterday TO the Stoa'e
Health Department at Albany, making
total of seventy-fve in all. Cases IN
Newark. Orange and other cities
strengthened the hold of infantile pa
ralysis upon New jersey and districts
near New York.
Physicians Meet Thursday.
As an aid to physicians in the watch
they are keeping all over the country
for possible cases Of the disease, spe-
cial meeting for physicians VIII be
held Thursday evening at the New
YorL Academy of Medicine. II West
Forty-third Street Its subject VIII De
"Infaltile Paralysis"
Among the speakers will be DR.. Flex-
ner. who will tell what is known about
the transmission of the disease; Com
missioner Emerson. who will speak on
the Importance Of the present out
break. and Dr. Louis G. Ager. OF the
Health Department, who Will describe
the types the epidemic presents. INV
tations to the meeting have been sent
far and wide, and many physicians
from other cities are expected TO at
tend. g..
The National American Woman Suf-
frage Association has placed its entire
/ organization machinery, covering every
I state. at the disposal of the Federal
/ Government. as an aid in its fght
against the epidemic's spread. me
/ offer was made by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
| Gait, in letter to Surgeon General
/ Blue. in which it was said that the
/ members of the association would rem
/ der any possible aid. If the oter Is
accented. warning bulletins and lit
erature concerning information ABOUT
the disease may be distributed by the
| women.
Many Cities Closed.
One by one cities and towns and
even small villages in country districts
are being closed to the thousands oil
New York children who are being hast
ilv taken out of the city because OF
the epidemic. Many of the places have
declared an absolute quarantine against
children from New York. Others per-
NIT them TO remain, but closely quar-
entine the houses in which they visit
for periods varying from ten days ia
two weeks.
Complaints have been received by the
State Health Department that quaran-
tine rules in New York were being dis
regarded, in that children from infect
ed districts were permitted 10 leave the
city for upstate cities or towns. Nine
Of the cases reported from upstate
towns are children from Brooklyn.
Assistant Surgeon General Rucker
recommended at the meeting of the
frn.tod S+otac Dpllfc Health Service
that persons suspected of being car
riers Of infantile paralysis be placed
under observation. il his suggestion is
adopted such persons will probably be
required TO obtain permit from the
Board Of Health TO leave the city. II
is possible that they viii be placed un-
der close quarantine.
Rigid Railway Rules.
Or. Rucksr also suggested that all
railways carrying passengers from
| New York be ordered TO clean and dis
infect thoroughly their cars between
each trip. The Pennsylvania Railroad
/ has issued orders that cars used on
/ picnics and excursions as long as the
epidemic lasts be cleaned and fuml-
gated at the end Of the run. All cars
operated between New York and Phila-
delphia will be fumigated as far as
practicable at least once a day.
Sixty-cight new cases OF paralysis
were found in Brooklyn during the
twenty-four hours which ended at 10
/ o'clock yesterday morning two more
/ than on Sunday. Four were discov-
cred in Richmond and one in Queens.
/ The Bronx escaped further infection.
/ There were nine deaths IN Brooklyn,
/ three in Manhattan, one in Richmond
and one in The Bronx.
Almost all the thirty newly discov-
cred cases in Manhattan are on the
/ East Side. between Clinton Street and
/ East 18th Street. High class residen-
tial districts have not yet been touched
/ IN the epidemic's spread. Brooklyn's
new cases were found in many parts OF
the borough
Six New Cases in Newark
Six new cases of paralysis were re-
/ ported IN Newark yesterday, and two
| deaths occurred. More than $4,000
warning circulars, issued by the Board
Of Health, were distributed in the city.
/ One new case. which ended fatally. was
| found in Bayonne. One more suburban
town reported the presence Of the dis
| ease, when two cases were discovered
in Orange. The Health Board at oncs