New-York tribune., 1916-07-11
103 New Cases in Day
Cause Physicians
Much Alarm.
MANY FINED IN
CLEANUP MOVE
DR.. FleXner Rushes Back
to New York to Head
Research Work.

One hundred and three more little
red-topped pins. pushed into the city
maps on the walls of Health Commits
sioner Emerson's Office, marked yester-
day the progress of the infantile pa
ralysls plague. Each pin showed the
location Of newly discovered case of
the disease.
with fourteen deaths reported, the
day proved one of the worst since the
outbreak Of the epidemic Only twice
before have the daily illness figures
passed the century mark. Most alarm
ing 70 the physicians. who are working
night and day in the fight against the
epidemic. was its rapid spread in Man
haitian, where thirty new cases were
found almost twice as many as on
any previous day.
Hope was not entirely abandoned
that the ravaces of the disease could
be checked and confined 10 districts
where is has already been reported.
but Health Department officials and Of
fcers Of tic United States Public
Health Service Joined in declaring that
the crux Of the situation was the ne
cessity Of discovering ways by which
tho disease is spread
To Take Up Researches.
Should isolation methods and the
stringent precautions practised by the
Health Department fail. the only re-
source will be research work to that
end. Physicians Of Rockefeller Insti-
tute for Medical Research have already
begun such work under the direction
Of DR.. Simon Flexner. who yesterday
hurried back - New York from Name.
Five surgeons Of the Federal service.
who have arrived in New York, will
rlso plunge into research problems a.
soon as a laboratory, with suitable IA
cilitics and near hospitals containing
children III with paralysis, can be OBJ
taincd.
The city-wide cleanup. ordered Sun
day by Mayor Mitchell, was begun yes
terday morning. As the combined
forces Of five city departments started
through the tenements, backyards and
streets OF the city. cleaning as they
went. and on the watch for violations
Of the sanitary code, the Mayor de-
clared that deeds. not words, would
mark the progress of the campaign.
Hundreds Of fines for code viola
tions were imposed By magistrates yes
terdav. Every one Of the 5000 white
wings" Of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment worked from early IN the morn
ing until after dark, and while the
epidemic continues the work Of the
department will be carried on twenty
tour hours day, m place of the usual
two cight-hour shifts. Inspectors Tor
the Health Department pushed further
their search for unsanitary conditions
among the eating places and street
vendors OF Brooklyn and the East Side.
Conference in Capital.
In Washington the heads of the Pub
hc Health Service met and decided TO
ask Congress for an appropriation of
500 900 10 be used for infantile pa
ralysis research work and in fighting
the spread OF the disease in other
states. The urgent need Of money was
made clear yesterday by {. II. LAWN
der. Of the Federal service. now in
charge Of IT'S work IN New York. He
declared that the extent Of the research
work would depend solely upon the
amount OF money available. Only about
$4,000 rs now on hand.
II j. becoming more and more evident
that the Federal service faces a seri-
Gus problem m preventing the opidem
ic from becoming widespread through
out the East
Twenty-Five cases from districts Of
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