Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-05
TWO MORE BABES DIE;
QUARANTINE ORDERED

i tba dIseaee were taken by the bodI" ~,
| Health in Camden today, orders We y,ds,
sued to the Atlantic City kallr9au, .' r,',b 10
| Jersey seeshore Railroad ana the ,,,c
| ssr,,,cs Corporation that all cars ana trains l
con,,ng into camden must be fumigateo at
| least once daily. .., h,, tOoO
| PHILADELPHIA health officers and ihspecl1Ji J .,
/ will be established by Luesuay "a ,nr,,
against children under l6 years oIu co'''-
| Ins from New Jersey and New iork, rk,...
| DT a A. Cairns. chief medical inspecto,, ,
| NJ the Department Of Health, has recalleu
25 inspectors. away on vacations,
mort for work Monday. They VIII pc sNs, s
their instructions on the quarantlne 70 e.,oi
established Tuesday There VIII pc 'o'si
OF 81 inspectors under Doctor cairns Seh'
out on the quarantine work.
More than 1000 inspectors and guards
will be mobilzed by Tuesday morning Wneh
the enforcement of the quarantine VIII @ @pe-
come rigid This corps will include ,VV
health officers, so water inspectors, % uis-
pensary workers and number from tne
County Medical Society and state Health
Department.
Certificates Of health will be necessary for
those who want to go back and forth from
Pennsylvania The quarantine, according
TO state Health Commissioner DiXon' VIII
be "as flexible as possible with safety Spe-
cIal health certificates will be required OF
those who have been exposed to the malady
or who have suffered and been cured.
Ada sadett, three and a half years old,
1892 kingsessing avenue, was taken to the
PHILADELPHIA Hospital for Contagious Dis
eases, suffering from the disease today.
A quarantine has been established at 2O4l
Newcomb street, Nicetown, where i5 per-
sons live in four rooms. Blanche Branch,
2 years old. has been stricken with the
disease there She is believed to have been
infected in Hunting Park, to which several
other cases have been traced.
Recommendations that candy made In
New York and brought into Pennsylvania
be Investigated to determine whether or ,Iot
IL carries germs OF infantile paralysis are
to be made to the Bureau of Health by
DR.. Ellwood Kirby, 1902 Spruce street, medi-
cal director Of st. Mary's Hospital and ply
sician in chief of the Masonic Home In
Elizabethtown. Pa.
Doctor Kirby believes that the investi-
CATION should be made Immediately. He
believes that the spread of the infant
plague may result from the wide sale OF
cheap New York-made candy, and that
tests OF IL should be made soon and often
to determine the presence Of poliomyelitis
germs At any rate. he believes children
should be warned against eating such
candy. so per cent Of which Ia manufactured
in the metropolis, where the epidemic Is
widely spread
Doctor Kirby thinks the germs may also |
be carried in ice cream, especially ice cream |
dispensed at the cheap street stands. In |
fact every edible thing sold at a street |
stand where II may gather small particles
of dust. Doctor Kirby believes, Is dangerous |
TO children and even to adults.
KRUsEN GIVES WARNING.
Or. Wilmer Krusen. Director OF the De- |
partment Of Health and Charities. issued |
l bulletin today in which he described the |
iisease its symptoms and the carriers of |
is germs The bulletin calls special atten-
ion to the danger of street dust in food and
he danger OF flies.
The disease is caused by poisonous sub
itance called virus. the bulletin states,
which is capable Of passing through the
inest filter and when inoculated into a
monkey causes symptoms similar to those
II infantile paralysis in children.
This virus, II is explained. has been de-
ected in the secretions OF the nose, throat
md intestines of persons affected. Coughing
neezing. kissing and splitting may distribute
he germs to others, as may also the in
estion OF foods contaminated by infected
ersons. most important dsseminator
{ the disease Is the carrier" who harbors
he infectious agent in his secretions but
5 not himself affected or made sick by its
resence.
SYMPTOMS GIVEN.
THE average case" says the bulletin.
begins with fever. pain in the head. back
nd limbs. stiffness of the extremties and
, infants symptoms resembling summer
omplaint may be evident. Within "a or T2
ours signs of paralysis begin TO appear.
sually in the lower but often in the upper
rtremities. Pain and tenderness exist
long the nerves and in the muscles on
ressure. After the acute symptoms sub.
de the stiffness Of the limbs gives yay
weakness and fiaccidlty which are soon
'llowed by wasting of the muscles. The
.sulting paralysis. however, may be much
nproved by constant and proper medical
eatment and in some instances cured"
Director Krusen still says there Is no
0idemtc OF the disease in PHILADELPHIA. In
Is bulletin he points out that in 1907. when
lere was a similar epidemic in New York
lis city escaped and 'it is hoped that
lis city may be spared again"
Guards and inspectors were pIacAd nm
aims and in passenger stations TODAY IN
eep out OF Pennsylvania all children un-
r l6 years old coming from New YORK
New Jersey. DR.. Samuel G. Dixon
ate Commissioner OF Health, has ordered
lis rigid quarantine 10 prevent an infan-
e paralysis epidemic in the State. He
'cided to establish the quarantine after
ports OF l3 new cases and two deaths
ON the disease were received Thursday
I'd six new cases and one death were re-,
'rted yesterday.