New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-30
Health Officials Want to
Find Ezekiel, Accidental
Farm Hand.
LEFT PARALYSIS
IN JERSEY HAMLET
Twenty-six New Cases
and IL Deaths Yester-
days Record Here.

Twelve deaths from infantile
paralysis-an increase OF two over
Thursday and seven over Wednesday
were reported in Greater New YORK
Yesterday. The same number of new
cases reported on Wednesday and
! Tbur MISUNDERSTANDING yes
! terdsy.
The United States Public Health
| Service would like to find one Ezekiel,
a roamer Of country roads and an ac-
cidental farm hand. II it finds him
! the history OF Ezekiel may find place
/ beside that of Typhoid Mary and
other inviting carriers of disease.
Ezekiel was the only human being
who penetrated the quarantine estab-
lished ~ Farmer Clark, of Patrick's
| Corners, n. j., soon after infantile
paralysis was discovered in that state.
Within two weeks after Ezekiel began
work on the Clark farm three of the
| five Clark children came down with in
fan.ile paralysis. The other two were
not Of the age usually affected ana
| escaped.
! Patrick's Corners, although near
| South River, is not a congested com
munity. The nearest house to the Clark
| farm is several hundred feet away. The
/ Clark quarantine was strict. Not even
| Grandfather and Grandmother Clark
were allowed on the premises. Two
months supply of provisions was laid
! in, and Grandmother Clark was per-
mitted TO shove a loaf of fresh bread
through the fence on a PLANK now and
then. Neither Clark nor his wife had
any traffic with the outside world, nor
did they intend 20 until harvest time.
Then Came Ezekiel.
Then came Ezekiel. lie came at time
when potatoes were clamoring TO be
hilled up and weeded and beans and
corn shrieked for the cultivator Ezekiel
had a winning way about him, too, that
added a silent voice 10 the vegetable
chorus. lie was hired, but on condition
that he sleep in the barn and eat IN
the house only when the children were
not at table.
When the paralysis came Ezekiel
faded out of the picture. In the har-
raised days that followed the doctors
first visit Clark failed TO notice what
became of his handy man.
Health Commissioner Emerson an
nounced yesterday that $4,000 OF tho
10000 pupils excluded from school be
cause of the places picked for their
vacations could nowreturn. The others
will be admitted on October 9. New
York was the safest city in the coun'
try so far as epidemics were concerned,
he declared. asserting that Boston, m
proportion 20 population, suffered much
more severely from the infantlie paral-
ysis epidemic.
Miss Grace c. Strachan. District Su-
perintendent of Schools. will not begin
her duties for a few days. Her niece.
Jean Kingsley. fourteen years old. Of
l7i5 Avenue II. Brooklyn, has been
stricken with infantile paralysis, and
Miss Strachan was at her home d week
ago.
Pennies for Crippled Children.
Twelve hundred pennies, the gift of
900 children of the vacation schools J
Of Old Trinity, 81. Augustine's Chapel, !
ST. Luke's Chapel, st. Marks Chapel, /,
st. Thomas's Chapel, Calvary Protes |
tant Episcopal Church and Manor I
Church House. were received yester.
day for the nfantile paralysis crippled !
children fund OF the National Specia
Aid Society.
Although the epidemic appears to be
waning generally throughout New Jcr-
sey, Hackensack schools may not open
on Monday as planned. There have
been two deaths there since Wednes-
day, neither victim being I'll more than
twenty-four hours. Another case de-
veloped in Hackensack yesterday.
Five deaths from infantile paralysis
and Al new cases OF the disease in the
state, not including New York City,
were reported to the State Department
Of Health in the twenty-four hours end
ing at S P. NJ yesterday. This brought
the total Of deaths to 66i since the in
ception of the epidemic and the cases
TO 1925.
The deaths were reported as follows:
Shandaken, Ulster County, two; One ida,
Madison County; Utica. Oneida Coun-
~ and Orangetown, Rockland County,
ono each. The new cases were from
the following counties: Onondaga O;
Suffolk, s; Westchester, 8; Madison.
. s'ulilFd anu 'iTAfis - fdAllf ~ 10 bi-
eida and Rockland, > each; st. Law
renee, Wayne. Montgomery, Orange.
Steuben and Otsego, one each.
Cases were reported in New York at
the following addresses:
New Cases-Borough of Manhattan.
l14 Sullivan Street, 435 East Sixth
| Street. $40 East Seventeenth Street. 374
East Tenth Street. 1872 West Twentieth
Street. 46l West Twenty-sixth Street,
2l2 East Ffty-fourth Street. l0l West
l03d Street, 202 sc. Eighty-second
Street. "a West Ninety-ninth Street,
l0s East 130th street and l62 East
l03d Street.
Deaths-Borough Of Manhattan.
Sal Hudson Street, l746 First Avenue
and 36S West Fiftieth Street.
New Cases-Borough of The Bronx.
1876 Tornado Place, l2s East l69th
Street, 2i2l Clay Avenue, Riverside
Hospital (home address, 1870 Jackson
Street, Passaic, \. j., 5l7 East l39th
Street and 35s East l35th Street.
Deaths-ROrourh of The Rropx