New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-06
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
IN ALL BOR0UGHS

up of children under twelve years IN
stead of sixteen.
Seek Reserve Serum.
II is also understood that the de-
partment intends 10 continue Its cam
paign for immune blood serum all WIN
Ter. IN order to obtain large reserve
quantity.
Response to the appeals Of the de-
partment for blood has been much
larger i'm the last few days. DR.. Abra-
ham Zingher, Of Willard Parker Hos
pital reported yesterday that since
Saturday afternoon he had drawn III
ounces Of blood from the veins Of
fourteen persons who had recovered
from the disease. This will make just
half that quantity of serum, provided
1t is all found suitable after neces-
sary tests.
Although there was a slight increase
Yesterday in new cases and deaths, II
was so much smaller than usually oc'
ours on Tuesday that health officials
were more confident than ever that the
epidemic was swiftly burning itself
out. Dr. Billings declared that the dis
ease was decreasing so rapidly that he
did not expect it to be present IN epl-
demic proportions after September 10.
That this belief is shared BY surgeons
of the United States Public Health Ser
vice was indicated when Dr.. Charles
+. Banks said yesterday that the gov
eminent physicians who had been in
specting travel here expected TO leave
within ten days
Movie Ban Is Lifted.
f. Kaufman, Deputy and Acting Com
missioner of Licenses, said yesterday
that if any prOprietorS of motion pct
ure theatres had failed to take advan-
tace Of the recent modification o. the
order by the Department of Health
they had but themselves to blame.
"A letter signed BY Commissioner
Bell notifying the motion picture houses
that children over twelve could attend
the shows was sent out Friday after
noOn," said Kaufman. ut was addressed
to more than 500 theatre owners and
should have reached all Of them by
noon Saturday"
The Health Departments Fund to
purchase braces for crippled children
reached q total of 26,70S.16 yesterday,
when contributions OF Sl,l67 were re-
ceived. This amount included a check
for 81 900 from ii. Walters, Of II Broad
way, and several small contributions
from places in New Hampshire, Ohio,
Rhode Island and Nebraska. Commits
sioner Emerson said yesterday that the
fund would not be closed yet. If more
money is subscribed than is needed the
balance will be turned over 10 the Gen
eral Committee on AfterCare.
Yonkers' Peril Passes.
IN Yonkers Yesterday Health Officer
DR.. W. s. Cons revoked the order pro-
hibiting children under sixteen years Of
age from entering motion picture
shows, and hereafter will bar only chill
dren under twelve years. In several up
state cities, however, a rigid quarantine
is still enforced. 1t was announced at
Ithaca last night that owing to the cpl
demic football practice at Cornell Uni
versity had been postponed for one week
and the first game of the season can
celled.
Twenty-six new cases were reported
in New Jersey yesterday, making the
total 10 date 2,77S. The new cases were:
Three each in Bayonne, East Orange
and Mount Tabor Borough; two each
in Long Branch, lrvington and Eliza
beth; one each in Burlington City,
Camden, Delaware Township, Camden
County; West Hoboken, Berkeley Town
ship, Ocean County; Stafford Town
ship, in Ocean County; Salem, Noun
tainside Borough, in Union County, and
Roselle Park and Orange. No report
was received from Newark.
Fourteen new cases were reported to
the State Board of Health in Connect
cut yesterday. There are now 6l2 cases
in that state.
The addresses at which new cases
and deaths were reported in New York
yesterday are as follows: