New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10

sis will be the subject of discussion.
Federal surgeons now In New YORK
have declared that Only rigid quar-
antine or medical supervision OF all
children who are travelling can check
the plague.
1873 New Cases Reported.
One hundred and eighty-three new
cases in the five boroughs were report
ed by the Health Department yester-
day, the same number as Tuesday.
Eighty-nine were in Brooklyn, forty
seven in Manhattan, thirty-one IN
Queens, fifteen in The Bronx and one
in Richmond.
There were ffty-seven deaths, ex-
ceeding by two the previous record fig
ure of August l. One hundred and
eighty-siX persons have died in the last
four days.
Yesterdays report Of new cases in
Manhattan is probably incomplete, for
the Health Department has learned
that children i'll with the disease in
the tenements are being hidden, because
parents are afraid that blood, for the
making of serum, will be taken from
the children after their re noval to a
hospital. Every effort will be made to
find such cases Immediately.
Blood is taken only from persons
who were i'll with infantile paralysis
years ago." Commissioner Emerson
said. volunteers who give it are do
ing so for the sake of all the children
who are i'll"
Seven Give Forty-four Ounces.
Forty-four ounces Of blood, enough
to treat more than twenty patients,
were taken from seven volunteers who
appeared at Willard Parker Hospital
yesterday.
There is no certainty yet as to the
results of the blood-serum treatment
DR.. B. p. Farrell, acting chief surgeon
of the New York Orthopedic Dispen-
sary and Hospital said, "but it has the
most scientific premises of anything
vet tried. Results reported to date
are encouraging, and a thorough trial
is certainly to be desired
DR.. +. J. Birmingham, executive
surgeon of the New York Throat, Nose
and Lung Hospital, where adrenslin
has been extensively tried, has asked
the Health Department TO put from
500 to 1000 cases at the disposal of
the hospitals surgeons for thorough
trial of this method.
Commissioner Emerson said the
treatments used in department hospi-
, tails were altogether at the discretion
of their medical boards and that the
department would neither suggest nor
require that any one be used.
Richmond Hopes Vanish.
Owing to the fact that only one new
case was reported in Richmond last
/ Sunday and none on Tuesday, officials
of the Department of Health had be-
/ gun to hope that the plague had run
/ its course in that borough. This hope
was dissipated, however, when four
| new cases were discovered yesterday.
/ Three of these were found after 10
O'Clock in the morning, and Will appear
/ in tNe reports 10 be issued to-day.
HeNlth officials'are able to offer little
/ exclamation for the sudden decrease in
the number of cases in Richmond. At
| first il was believed il was due to the
natural slackening of the epidemic, but
/ the four cases discovered yesterday
give Richmond more children i'll with
/ the disease, in proportion to its popu-
( lation, than any other borough.
The only other explanation advanced
is that there are fewer congested dis
I tricts in Richmond, and that, therefore,
| the element of personal contact be-
3 tween children is not so noticeable as
, in other parts of the Greater City.
Greater in Proportion.
/ From the beginning of the plague
Richmond has been a hotbed of the dis
ease. The four cases found in Rich
mond yesterday give the borough one
now case for each $4,000 inhabitants,
while the forty-seven new cases IN
| Manhattan give that borough only one
+ for every $4,000.
Up to August I, when the figures
were compiled, Richmond had 2.05 cases
per 900 of population. Brooklyn l.34,
Queens 90 Manhattan PC and The
| Bronx "a. Richmond, therefore, lacked
only 10 Of having as many cases per
/ 900 population as the other boroughs
combined.
Persons leaving New York for the
/ Catskills by routes under the inter
/ state jurisdiction Of the United states
Public Health Service will be refused
/ Identification cards by the Federal sur
geons, Commissioner Emerson said
( yesterday.
Other Places Overcrowded.
"Not only in the Catskills, but in
other places. is the overcrowding so
serious that the State Health Depart
meut considers it dangerous for peo-
/ pie TO enter.
An appeal for donations of white
enamelled iron baby cribs has been
made by the Health Department, which
/ still lacks several hundred.
Forty-six new paralysis cases at
/ places outside the city were reported
/ Yesterday TO the State Health De-
/ rartment. making a total of 1906. with
/ seventy-four deaths, since the outbreak
/ Of the epidemic. One hundred snd
/ thirty-nne cases were reported to the
| New Jersey Board Of Health. OF these
| l05 were in Newark
In view of the epidemic, the state
/ board recommended TO the Commits
/ sioner of Education. Calvin y. Ken
| dali. that the opening Of the New Jer-
sev public schools in September be
/ deferred. This recommendation will
/ be referred TO local school boards,
K which alone have the power to act
upon it,
The following list Of addresses where
cases of infantile paralysis have been
/ found recently was made public yes
terday by the Health Department:
Manhattan.
No. 3O7 East Eighty-ffth Street, 81.
/ Vincent's Hospital. 1903 Washington
| Street. 129 Monroe Street. 81 West
Eighth Street, 3 Newton Street, 1903
| East Fifty-eighth Street, $40 East
| Fightv-frst Street. ass East Eightieth
| street. 2l2 West Eightieth Street. 3O4
West Sixty-ninth Street s6a Tenth