Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-20

 | all children under sixteen years of 1 age who are residents of New York 1 city, or of any city or place where in- l fantile paralysis is epidemic, the or 1 der to go into effect at 1915 o'clock | Friday morning.
 On account of the increase in cases in New York city and also in view of l the fact that the epidemic is growing l in New Jersey, that more and more l cases are appearing in Connecticut | and because of the discovery of two cases in Montville, just a few miles south of this city, it is felt by Dr. Brophy and by other health officers of ] the county that more stringent meth Ods should be followed. Dr. Brophy said Wednesday night that there are no cases in Norwich now but he doesn't intend to wait until the disease appears in this city. His theory is safety first and his intention is to keep the disease out of Norwich. With this end in view he called up Health Officer Chipman of New Lon don, Health Officer Jenkins of Wili- mantle and Health Officer Fox of Montville and they all agreed to meet at Dr. FOX's office in MOntville We'd nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock to dis cUss the situation.
 The meeting was called to order at the time named and the session last ed about one hour and fifteen minutes. All the health officers assembled at the ! meeting realized the seriousness of the situation and decided on issuing the following order:
 We the undersigned health officers of the towns, cities and bOrOughs of Norwich, New London, GrOtOn. East l Lyme Waterford, MontviIle and Will Iimantic, hereby forbid the entrance into the above named towns, cities and l borOughs of all children under sixteen | years of age who are residents of New l York city, or of any city, town or 1 place where infantile paralysis is cpl demic after 1915 a. rn Friday. July ] D.. Norwich; E. c. Chipman. M. D., l New London; F. H. Dart, M. D., East ! Lyme: G. M. Minor, N. D., Waterford;
 F. w Hewes, N. D., Groton; M. E. ] Fox, M. D., MontviIle; George ThOmp- 1 son, NJ. D., Taft-ille; and c. s. Jen- 1 kins, M. D., Winimantic.
 l Dr. BrOphy stated that this order means that none of these children will i be allowed to enter even if they are i bound for other points. They may l say they are bound for other points 1 but it is felt that their statements may not be so and as it is impossible to | trace them it has been decided that | they be excluded also.
 ] Notices to this effect have been l served on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the Central | Vermont Railroad, the Shore Line | Electric Railway, the New England
 
 | line CNOrwich-New York Propeller ! company.
 l Any children under sixteen years of | age brought from any of the points 1 excluded in the health officers order l will be turned back and must be re- turned by the transportation company ] bringing them here.
 1 To some people this may seem rather i harsh treatment to those who wish to 1 get away from the epidemic localities c,gS T0yr 1l7T+ a11 hot 1 is our duty to protect the people in 1 this section. Even though the federal authorities are examining children be- l fore they leave New York this is no l assurance that the children coming i here will not develop the disease, he continued, for the disease may appear l three weeks after the children are eX- 1 posed to it. One of the children who l developed the disease this week at 1 MOntviIle had been there about three ] weeks. This shows that the three 1 week quarantine period esta blished by 1 Dr. BTOphy is pretty nearly correct 1 If a. child has been away from New | York three weeks, or been away from i any infected district that length of 1 time and it is proved that he or she l has been away from those places for ] three weeks and if the health officers l feel that it is safe to admit the child, l the child may be admitted. l In New London Health Office Chip 1 man has had @ corps of medical in- l spectCrs examine every child that 1 came into the city either by New l London line or Chelsea line steamers l or by the railroads The inspection 1 has revealed suspected cases some of ! which have developed the disease aft CT being sent to the cOntagion ward of the Memorial hospital for observa- 1 tion.
 l The result has had a tendency to segregate children showing suspicious mir O11f an l tirely satisfactory. The nature of the l disease is such that mere exanina- i tiOn of the child is not sufficient l precautionary step to prevent a l spread of the cOntagiOn.
 1 A child may be apparently perfectly 1 well when examined by the physi- 1 clans on it's entrance to the city but i it may develop the diease after it l has been here a short time. This is | due to the fact that the child may be 1 carrying the germ which does not de- i velOp for several days.
 1 Physicians are hindred in fighting l the disease because of the lack of l exact knowledge of the disease. The | exact period of incubation is not ] known and to make the period as definite as possible it has been placed 1 at three weeks by the experts who 1 are fighting the disease in New York. That the period of incubation ex- tends over several days is evident | from the case of the Brod child
 which died at the Memorial hospital | Tuesday night.
 The child was stricken suddenly 1 Tuesday afternoon and died about 8 o'clock. The boy went to New Lon- | don with his mother and another child July 2, living at the home of 1 Samuel .Afbramson at: 91 Garfield ave-
 nue. This was several days before
 the medical inspection of children coming from New York and. the in-
 fected districts was started by the 1 health department.
 The child had been in apparently
 good health during it's stay until l Tuesday afternoon when 1t became suddenly i'll. Dr. E. A. eHenkle was called and found the child with a high
 temperature and breathing heavily and irregularly, Diagnosis showed l symptoms of infantile paralysis and
 the child was rushed ito the contagion ward of Memorial hospital where it | arrived about o'clock. It's condition grew rapidly worse and two hours afterward it died.
 The Abramson home was im1nedi- l TeI IVY Health OffiPaY~