New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
1908 New
Cases OF Flu:
l69 Deaths
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2,230 Amsterdam Avenue. His place
Of business is in 1870 Broadway.
Health Department inspectors testi-
mad failed to furnish heat. The ten
ants themselves said that when they
asked for heat Mr. Zipkin told them
they could move and the Board Of
Health could go to warmer place
than his apartment house. The Judge
said Zipkin would have to pay fine
Of $50 or go to jail. He paid.
The Mayors Committee on Rent
Protitcering assured Dr.. Copeland that
every moral and legal step would be
taken to prevent evictions just now
Dr.. Copeland said that many families
were being evicted every day and that
neither i'll or we'll TO put family in
the street at this time is crime
against decency and an invasion OF the
public health.
A complaint was received from the
manager Of a large hotel against what
he termed the practice Of many physi
whom they could not obtain a bed in 81
hospital. The writer said that this en-
dangered his other guests, especially
as the doctors rarely informed the no.
tel management that the new arrival
was i'll. DR.. Copeands answer was
that if the hotels took the precautions
with bed linen and dishes which they
were supposed to take anyway there
was no danger as long as the patients
kept to their rooms.
Making Subways Sanitary
Much of the effort to control the
disease is being centered on the sub
ways, and cars, platforms and even
employees are being scrutinized con-
stantly by scores of Health Depart
ment inspectors under instructions to
arrest all violators Of the ordinance
prohibiting splitting and smoking. Spe-
yesterday a crusade against men car
rying lighted cigars, cigarettes or
pipes into the subway operated by
that company.
week ago the special officers were
stopped when Magistrate Geismar
criticized them for arresting men at
night compelling the victims to spend
the night in jail for what he called q
trivial offense. Officials of the b. R.
the job after letter had been received
from DR.. Copeland in which he de-
mandcd that every possible prccaution
be taken to keep the air of subways
and subway trains as clean as possible.
Five arrests were made by Walter
e, Davis, one of the special officers, at
the Forty-fifth and Fifty-nnth street
stations of the Fourth Avenue Sub
way. The men were taken before Mag
and fined s each The fine was re-
mittcd in the case OF one man who
pleaded inability to pay because that
he was out Of work.
In Jersey City forty-five cases Of
influenza and nine cases Of pneumonia
were reported yesterday, making a
total Of 1870 cases of influenza and
sixty Of pneumonia in that city.
Mayor Frank Hague issued an appeal
to the citizens to arrange to send
stricken relatives to the city hospital
He said that. rich or poor, influenza
patients should be treated in the hos
would be felt less keenly if the trained
attendants available for work in COM
batting the epidemic were able to
center their activities at the hospital.
All state institutions in New Jersey
were placed in strict quarantine by an
order issued at Trenton by Commits
sloner Burdette &. Lewis, of the De
partment of Institutions and Agencies.
lie SAID this step was a prccaution to
protect the inmates. Thus far, he
ADDS, the state institutions have es-
capped the epidemic, except that four
, prisoners in the penitentiary at Tren-
ton have influenza in mild form.
Quarantine Spreads Here
The general quarantine established
over state institutions in New jersey
was almost as complete in New York
through the action of individuals.
Orphan asylums, homes for the aged
and Jalls became increasingly difficult
to visit yesterday. The Raymond Street
gail IN Brooklyn, although free from
influenza, was closed to visitors. War
den Robert Barr said the quarantine
Will be maintained strictly for at least
week. There are two hundred prison
ers, including nineteen women, there.
A similar quarantine is in force at the
White Plains jail. New prisoners will
be isolated until it is definitely estab
lshed that they are not harboring anv
infectious diseases
l4,8O5 Cases Reported in Hi
nois Said To Be Only One
fifth Of the Actual Number.