New-York tribune., 1918-10-21
Warrants To Be Issued To-
day in City's Fight to
Check Influenza
Daily Increase In
New Cases Is Cut
City Administration At
tackled as Negligent by
DR.. Stephen S. Wise

Inc average daily increase IN span
ish influenza cases in New York
dropped yesterday to 1870. This is sos
below the total of the day before.
The Department of Health to day will
begin making arrests of landlords who
refuse to supply heat under the orders
of the department. A new section of
the sanitary code makes such refusal a
misdemeanor The order Of the depart
ment applies only where heat is stipu-
lated in the lease and there is illness in
the house.
The three big shipbuilding companies
on Staten Island, the Standard Ship
building Corporation, the Downey Ship
building Corporation and the Staten
sland Shipbuilding Company will to-
lay administer the city's influenza vac
cine to its employees. The companies
say the working efficiency Of their
plants has been reduced so per cent by
he epidemic.
Although the cemetery employees and
funeral directors are Overworked be-
cause of the great number of deaths, a
report that large numbers of unburied
OOUieS are UcCOIUfHR Il menace 10 puDllc
health is denied by Commissioner Cope
land.
Increase in Manhattan
Manhattan showed marked increase
N new influenza cases yesterday, the
total being $685. The Bronx reported
1888, Brooklyn 1888, Queens 215 and
Richmond 241 There was a falling off
III Queens and The Bronx. Manhattan
mad 1877 deaths from influenza. The
Bronx 30, Brooklyn 139, Queens 26 and
Richmond 22.
Manhattan reported 377 new pneu-
monia cases, The Bronx seventy eight,
Brooklyn, 161, Queens forty-four and
Richmond fifteen. Pneumonia deaths
n Manhattan totalled 112; The Bronx,
@'neteen; Brooklyn, eighty-eight;
The deaths from both influenza and
pneumonia reached GAG, with CTS new
cases of pneumonia.
The Health Departments figures
show 67,132 cases of influenza since the
epidemic began, with 1898 deaths, and
lob from pneumonia. The pneumonia
cases for the month aggregate 7,647.
pr. Stephen s. Wise, addressing a
congregation at Carnegie Hall yester-
day, said that ten days ago he had
learned from a representative of the
Health Department that it was esti
mated that there were really four times
the number Of influenza cases report
ID to the Health Department develop
M. in the city from day to das.
Warning Snecred At
"All that I learned at and from the
Board of Health" said DIR. Wise, Gus
,itied the conviction that there had
oeen a failure to grasp the menace OF
q nationwide situation with that high
Intelligence and vigor of action which
should have been at the command OF
cur great community"
Declaring that the New York health
authorities made no effort to profit BY
'he experience of Boston physicians
ne added
~ learned and I know that DIR. Gold
water had in good time warned the city
and forewarned its health authorities
The only answer was a cheap sneer IL
keeping with the fashion of the city's
administration.
AZ have reason to know that tho
Board of Healths grasp Of the prob
lem has been intirm and belated.
Little will it advantage the com
munity in the midst of this crisis te
speak of it in political terms, but
remind, you, my people, that we arc
paying, in part, the bitter penalty Of
supplanting an effective and skilled
city administration by the type of gov
ernment which to-day obtains ane
which would be farcical if it were no
calamitous.
Expert Assistance Needed
1.-TWO weeks ago and more, the heae
of the Health Department, wSiving per
sonal pride and professional pique
should have summoned to his side {
group Of experts to act as effective
coadjutors in battling the menace con
fronting the city.
"The time will come when the crisis
shall be passed, when it will behoove
the citizens to review the whole story
and pass solemn judgment irrespective
of departmental sneer or mayoral jibe. ,