The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-15
TWO PARALYSIS CASES
Public Schools Closed for Two
Weeks

Foreste II. Sylvester, aged 10 years,
died last Monday night of paralysis, af-
ter being ill a few days. The ailment
began in the stomach with the symptoms
of typhoid pneumonia, last Friday. On
Tuesday the symptoms of paralysis set
in and he died at $50 p. M.
He boarded at Robert Hewitt's on
Delaware venue, and worked at the
powder mills. The burial was on Tues
day in Riverview Cemetery. Later the
body will be taken to his home in
Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday Rosa Caralari, aged 90
months. at the home of her parents on
tanning avenue, was declared to nave in
%fantile paralysis.
Both homes have been put under
quarantine. At Robert Hewitt's are
eight persons, Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt,
their two daughters, the mother of Mr..
Sylvester. a DUPONT nurse and W
workmen.
Miss Belle Hewitt being a teacher
in the sixth grades. the Board of Health
on Monday night decided to have those
rooms closed until Monday, September
25th, hoping by that time the scare will
be over. As many in those grades
HilHSleu WIFI olueTS. many stayed at
home because of fear. On Tuesday It
was decided by the Board of Health and
school officials to close the whole school
to await developments.
NOT CONTAGIOUS.
How this disease is propagated re-
mains a mystery to those who are on the
hunt for the microbe, bacteria or as
some called a malady. A malady is a
disease arising from an inactive organ
of the body. In that case the food eat
en- becomes a toxic poison which fails
to be properly discharged and impairs
the nerves and organs of the body. Sur
geon Wade H. Frost. who has given the
most complete summary of the cause
and transmission of the disease. in the
report of the L. S. Health service July
18th. states that of 2070 persons exposed
to poliomyeTItiS in the same house and
the same families only fourteen develop
the disease in its rank form. This
proved that the risk of catching it Is
very slight and less than one-ffteenth of
scarlet fever. Similar evidence of the
slight. eontagiousness of pOliomyelitis
has been afforded among the large groups
of children exposed to contagion by as
sociation in schools and institutions.
with acute cases. The number of cases
in which a child contracted the disease
after a member of the family has been
taken i'll is so decidedly small that
those who wished to prove that it was
a contagious disease stopped the tabu-
Iation before they got far on the 5000
cases reported.
Tb;c hos a1p,ack nncitiua1v dannonStraf r..
ed that it is a non-contagious disease
and it has not been proven to he-a bac-
terra disease. Hence, many are now de-
claring it to be q -malady and that the
hysteria for so strict a quarantine has
been unnecessarily created by health of
fcials who are on the job to find some
thing to prove the Importance of their
offices.
The high court of specialists assembled
in New York on August 4th from all
parts of the United States decided that
personal hygiene, cleanliness of person
and surroundings and care of food
which should be thoroughly cooked" are
the most effective measures to prevent
the spread of poliomyelitis. Not a word
of quarantine!
And yet despite all proofs against
contagiousness of this disease derived
from histories of previous epidemics, the
public is forced to accept encroachments
on its business, its traffic. it's schools
and church attendance, its travel and
pleasure. by a quarantine based upon ex-
detrimental or theoretical data.
CAUSES OF THE DISEASE
A prominent physician in Newark, N.
J.. with four titles to his name, says:
This disease is not caused by an invas-
ion of germs. When fermentation takes
place in the i%ntestines. when a persons
blood and all the fluids of the body are
charged with toxemia from the putrefac-
ton in the intestinal tract; caused by
eating too many starches: and the cleo
tro-magnetic condition of the atmos-
phere becomes favorable for fermenta-
ton to take place, we then have an cpl
demic. If the intestinal tract is exam
med You will find all the kinds of germs
you are looking for.
"'This fermentation in the intestines
causes the nerves to become irritated.
The motor nerves control the muscles,
causing them to contract or construct.
This in turn causes the ligaments to
which the muscles are attached to con-
tract and draw the vertebrate together,
%impinging the nerves. When the motor
nerves are cut off. paralysis ensues."
HYGIENIG LIVING.
A prominent Philadelphia physician
gives excellent advice in regards to living
as follows:
1t is not known how the disease is
propagated. and therefore it is impossible
to say definitely anything as to any GER