The evening world. Newspaper, July 7, 1916, Page 3

SCENES ON MONROE STREET BL Dr. CHARLES F. BOLL te-dey @ bulletin of “Don'ts’ #, food Inspectors and cancies for 10 nurwes, Tt is im SAYS DR. EMERSON Serta aro epidemic Is to prevent the ‘carriers! of the germ from mingling with ible 5 4 y}y others. A, tearrier’ is one who hi Impossit le ty Gel Enough come in contact with a sufferer from Nurses and Doctors, He the malad The most important : (hing, therefore, Is to see first that Admits. the sufferer ix either Rent to a hos. - pital or safeguarded in other, wa sv that the germs may not spread, Pmen at oon today Health Com ind, second, to see that the ‘carrier’ Miasioncr Haven meron admitted |i8 properly taken care of, This ta how we have concentrated our work.” — p= In # sintement 4 to newspaper | that the city authorities were unable Commission the w York Health Department had taken its first step to-day in cooperat- ability to obtain nurses and other! ing with Government authorities, when help needed in combatting the dis-) he held a conference with Dr, Lave eage. inder, a Government expert stationed At the sume time the Commissioner} at Bilis: Island outlined the work that is bein to cope adequately with the infantile pakalysixs epidemic because of in al send a request to t » at Washingto nly monkies for expe operation with Government officials One theory whieh is being followed fg that the Infantile paralysis: p might have been brought here ime capable to contracting infantile paralysis. gested bocaus i : sioner Emerson added, "4 circulars @ firm hold in Brooklyn, and that) soner Binaraon, add that Ps most Italian immigrants come over, yelop a uniformity of on’ steamships landing Brooklyn i that these cireulays be seatt docks, Commissioner Emerson said | Gist tpreaan tne meee oe that not one instance of infant! that can be done to .b Paralysis had been found among the | diseas fi Italian immigrants investigated i} Do you think that to-day'’s fig- The Italian Consul in New York, at) the request of the I an s every lot out the alth Department, | pregeding twenty-four hours, indi- fe making inquiries to learn if there | caf@Mhat the ATG mnie is under con- fa. @ prevelanco of the disease In cers | HON Ne was wake dwt wiah tain sections of Italy T could say it did, but Lean’t. Hund- “How 1s the Department of Heattn | reds rents’ have left ‘the city fighting the epldemic?” Commissioner | WIth their children, ‘That alone would Emerson was asked, tend to brit use in the “We are employing every means at | a lon number of case: hard fight.” The Very Thing You Have Been Wishing For TE A om one In Air-Tight 10 Cent Tin Permanently preserves all the fresh, rich fragrance until used. No wasted strength and bother as with uy handy, exposed foil packages. Put up and guaranteed by the largest import atyifacturing, wholesale grocery cc the world “Sunbeam is really and truly THE WORLD'S BEST value in # quality cup. Sipped steam- ing hot or served ico cold YOU will be delighted with every dr: Comes in all Varieties—including “Russian Blend.” ‘Try it. Your grocer has it or will gladly get it if you ask bim. Austin, Nichols & Co., Inc.—New York lo Distributors Order by name “SUNBEAM” INS) upon the wenuine ja GEYLON BS — 3, y GLENY a ft to the public in whieh he said CITY RUBBISH WAGON UNCOVERED IN MONROE 8STREET. (Continued fre First Page) streets were flushed from at night until 6 in the morning and that nineteen gangs of fushers were District No. n the wagons said ere not to blame for the in the department, they added, to do merson added that} treat, eight ting the street | were plentiful here and men in front of the house said that the cans some- cans of garbage wero the afternoon wne! ‘The first.thing the Health Commis-/Oak and New Chambers Str by the Health Department in. co. Sener did was to ask Dr, Lavinder to) pilg of ill-smelling refuse was backed Up against the curb and on the side walk was a v he monkey is the only animal) in front of a g On the corner of nd fruit stand th- fmmigrants. ‘This point was sug-|) the Lavinder also will suggest. to} Of flushing were seen in pools of water the epidemic has such | the Public Health: Service," Commis. |in the street Monroe Str a; Were four cans of awill, rotten to 8, decayed fruit and other ref. This was four (hing 39, where a case of Infantlie ‘oad | mate 18 tO! use. of Health sign tn Taian all along the Siock was crowded with pushearts, from which residents wer | buying fruit aud vesetables, and four cans of refuse ware on the steps of ures, which show @ falling off in the | number of deaths as compared to the | In front of the public bath on Rut- ger Place were eleven garbage ¢ been emptied long line of youngsters was strung of thom waiting for] ine A placard an- of This Is going to be and a a turn at the bath. At No. 344 Clinton Stri were feasting on the contents of gar- t three cats feathers and ¢ ayed frult and vexe- Children were kicking at the cats and running after them to play SUNBEAM » reeking with unpleasant odors and showing swill, rotten frutt, 82 Monroo Stre tom of a stairway, throwing out villainous m air and a cat was breakfast from their ox around the cans. cans dors on the pushearts, none of whic » baskets und: baskets and tho peddlers throw lice say that they have to keep the peddlers all the tine but the dirt still seems to thrive turned from into the oms to prevent from being wash wares dof tho Bureau of A young man in t morning that the signs were being posted on every street where there was @ case of In- Not a single sign was seen in Health District No. 1 and Street doctor's offic fantile paraly sa It must be remembered that the infantile paralysys Si of Brooklyn Jlumbia Stre day by an than issu Violate health ordinances Hof t In Sedgwick ithere is to-day eloantir has been lying there since early yes-! | torday morning hail notified had abou Street, with fact, ‘Th reporter ind refuse In front of we rner Streets were contents, average paralysis of Nos, 44 refuso and d to-day two 1 fish neither been eit A borhood to Jarmed with \iun " | tions for di the} Among the cases of para ayed [in which the | owing gart were 01 (two ea STREETS NEAR COLUMBIA TOR, BROOKLYN, PERILOL which cases | fantile paralysis were which may be designa region, was yuade to- tvening World Here is what he found In face of the prevalence and viru- | lence of the disease, th Jot Health has left matters almost en- | |tlrely in the which is powerless to do 1 h more}, xo who to tho summonses to th reet, near Columbla, | reeg, he which | eight times about but that the | tow t All) it almost impc was liber. | uly patronized by flies, a large num ber of children wer the carcass, Around the corner horse is lying thi alysis at) Now. from where the re cases of par Columbia | the streets hav Ttalian ittached to the doors announcing th first floor of No. 182 is oe cupled by a candy f tore where a woman day dispensing water | were observed from which 4 deeent es of the heverage to the urehins of the neighborhood In front of No, 209 Columbia Street | fantile par is appeared: ye whieh had overflowed walk, About children eating chased from an itinerant vender . 66 Columbia ana in similar condition, Six cans, filled to over garbage and other refuse merous were with | JERS: vund | pp In Baltic and Harrison Streets othe Jong unempt al foot swarming with xeemed to have days and had been full for In Hicks Street the had occurred. hor jeed, erled their In Cheever Place, everal cit were many ea ble matter, sc Street being without one sanaking his rounds in the neh in the seetion appalled hin gone forth, the Columbia has been’ bu printed | number and big yards cans and dirty 102 and o Sackett Street, oa) Henry Street, Furman Street Baltic the State Hospital for the Ins has issued @n order that, pending aww, Forbes, Ube 5, OCK IN WHICH BABIES HAVE BEEN STR the disease CHILDREN PLAYING NEAR GARBAGE CANS AT NO. 26 MONROE STREET. GARBAGE CANS IN STREETS, BABIES PLYINGNEARTHEM, BREED PARALYSIS [four houses were passed w cards announced the presene dread disease DEAD ANIMALS HELP TO BREED DISEASE IN GOWAN DISTRICT. An Evening World reporter who visited the Gowanus Creek section In South Brooklyn, where thousands of Italians live and where twenty cases of infantile paralysis have been re , to-day found conditions were Yor ten days a dead horse floated p and down the creek with the tl » they can find, | horse was removed niiton the r rier standing on | captains told the observer dead ani- Department | mals were permitted to remain in the Kk in large numbers until de- | composition destr: the ‘apt, William Smith Vania Railroad bar nnayl- told the reporter that in his care years, running in and out of Gowanus ty as at prespnt the skipper, “the river has be stream of decomposed 1 {de the stench t¥ ferce, making breed something.” clean since simmer arr On Union Street, between Fo: and Fifth Avenues, three push were selling fish from uncovered and uniced w is. ‘The fish were d caying, but enlidren were buying. Three doors away, six cases of in torday Bred G » No. 4 Atlantic Av © of the called a co owanus sume way and nobody bothers." Ac to discuss ways and means to prevent the spread of in 4 fantile par in Jersey City was held this morning tb r Mark Pagan, Dr, Pra Sup an erintendent of eX ie 1 1 The ad visa the summe seh was dl 1, but Dr irged that th pen ren would in that way ther under Depart 1 \ nd 1 It i . t y : ” Boulevard and osu ! PLAINS, N. J, July 2. Kyans, Medical Director o: MO Dr. avid, The one wate atement of the ar when they visit pat BROOKL TAKING ACTION AGAINST HEALTH LAW VIOLATORS. der that they might rer ditions which had resulted in’ their In telling them that they Hd have until to-morrow morning to clean up their stables, Magisti mn Gowanus Creek runs through the CONDITIONS) neart of the section, and children bathe In the water and play along] w A careful inspection of that section] its shores, It is the only half way of in-' cool pla found, | Last night th et bridge, but this) scourge with persons keeping unclean places mises, I called up Dr, Tal- madge of the Health Board and aries Mauro of the Street Clean- ing Departny 1 would sit daily to hear their cases, wary, L will ait night Magistra treet bridge saw the carcasses Jof three cats and two dogs, Barge | of thirty | having his stock exp man’s clerk had been fined $ before for the same offense, About fifty other offenders were in court and were warned to clean up their premises forthwith ‘To-morrow morning at 7.30 o'clock policemen in the Greenpoint and Will jamsburgh sections of Brooklyn will start out with 8. H.C. A, wagons to gather in cats and dogs who are be- Heved to be dad never seen the river as “During the last two months,” said | na wor, At blo for us to stay} sbourd our barges, If this Mth does | not breed infantile paralysis in| surbage conditions, residents of | FEWER CA TO-DAY; DEATHS FALL wh carts, | had been two deaths in the t at “everybody on mn pushearts the t none th SPREAD OF EPIDEMIC, tute that there as report n treet; 2% Germantow lous SPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHED OW THE EAST B1DE TO OFY BY AN EVENING WORLD BTAIT PHOTOGRAPHER ee UNCOVERED GARBAGE of in whall latives hos ralys do to weed TRATES Magistrate Doda adjourned the of fifty stablemen who were before him in the Butler irt, Brooklyn, to-day in or- edy the con. presence of the present I purpose dealing severely nt and told them that Nash in the gdams urt fined a fish dealer $10 ed, The the day carriers of infection, uliieieiss S REPORTED OFF IN BROOKLYN, to-day's rise in. tempera. re was a slight decrease ap- parent in the spread of tho infantile epidemic, In Manhattan » were no deaths in the twenty. hour period preceding the time hich to-day's figures were com. the Board of Health. hours preceding. mx r ported two deaths, as jay before, kiyn there was a falling off jeaths yesterday to only teen reported in to-day's figures: held its own, with one death to-day and one yesterday ind has bad no deaths for forty aight h irs f douths for the twenty hour period ending this morn twenty-two as against th record of a death an hour riod preceding. new cases reported In to-day's ve as follows: Manhattan, 13, of 8 Bronx, 8 an in Rrooklyn, 60, a falling off eens, & an increase of 1 rey + Riehm t 33 new ca rday. The r Richmond yesterday ba # n new cases, which nv increaso of 1 new cases is 87, as the preceding twentys a distinet falling off. deaths to date, Including eported to-day, has now total of all cases a sare located as follows 1 Di N 4 South 420 cot 4, Lay Ridge, Street Second Avenue; Parkville, 4 West Street; 6 Brownsville, Pennsylvania CANS AROUND DOORS eS ICKEN WITH PARALYSIS NAP PARRA E REDO POLP LLL OED DOLL OELLEDRLEPOLEOLLLLD ARAL LR AARP LL IPRA LRRD PREP OP LALLA RDA D RARER DORR ED JUAN, head of the Board of Public Health Education of the Health Department, issued germs, like all other bacteria, flourish in filth of where conditions are unssnitary, Stray cats or dogs may carry ord of every parent in the city should be ‘cleanliness.’ PROPERTY OWNERS RESPONSIBLE FOR FILTH CONDITIONS Put Garbage Cans Out Before Prescribed Time, Says Com- missioner Fetherston, When the garbage collection condl- Uons of the streets on the lower east aldo of the city were called to the at- tention of Street Cleaning Commis- aioner John T. Fetherston by The Evening World to-day he denied that his department was responaible, “Wo are forbidden under tio law to go Into tenements for the garbage" the Commissioner sald, “and our in- #pectors have notified all the ten ment Janitors of the exact time the garbage will be called for, Under the law thoy are not to put out the gar- bage until that time, and it ts sup- posed to bo kept in covered cans at all times, The function of the De- partment of Street Cleaning is to go and get the garbage and wo do it, “It is clearly up to the property owners, the Janitors and those charged with enforcing these ordinances to see | that garbage is properly covered and is not placed on the street until re-| moval time, The law also provides that the shall be washed, and, I believe whatever danger exists comes from the failure to wash these cans, the filth residue on the bottoms forming @ real breeding place for We are willing to go to any ex- treme to combat the spread of dis- euse. 1 belleve wo have enough men working and are handling the situa- tion from the standpoint of this de- | partmet excellently; but we are will- ing to put on even more m to any length, I have been in con- stant touch with the Department of Health and have dong everything 1! have been asked to do by them Only last wee of more than 200 people why mixed Burbage and ashes. “We have been fighting for years to improve conditiquy and the de partment js today Ming the eaat side better service than other sec tlons of the city. We have in some places two removals of garbage t ctioally, we wbout the ty owners, charged wi making the the janito the ‘responsibility ¢ obey the ordinances, EIGHT NEW PLAGUE CASES UP THE STATE; ’ TOTAL NOW IS 45, ALBANY, N. Y,, July 7. Bight new 4 of infantile ysis in svc f the State outside of Greater y York were reported to the State Health Department up to noon to Jay. ‘This brings the total number of cases outs f Now York up to forty-five » new cases were re ported to-day as follows ‘Two at Yonkers and one each at Dutchess Junction, Warwick, id Glon Cov previously reported twelve; Beacon, four; North Hempstead, three; Farming fale, five; Coplague, two; Albany, two, and one each at Greenport, Jas- per, Babylon, Hocnell, Kingston, Am ityville, Yonkers, Warwick and Fish- kill AT NO. 32 MON ROE STREE an n and Ko We caused the arrest, gE ARNE AN lost oF fo articles ade to Presidents all Btu requesting that ken in disinfecting all rry children m New York, Local ruith officers were instructed to-day neo that glasses at #oda fountaina other public gathering places were thoroughly cleansed and disine footed after f deaths outside of have been received at the Long Island, have been reported ume officially. — en First Baby Pingne Victim te * Baltimere. 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