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Show WILL WAGE ' 1R UPON H YORK EPIDEMIC United States Public Health Service Sur-geons Sur-geons Sent to Great City to Aid in the Work of Stamping Out Infantile Paralysis at Its Source. LOCAL DOCTORS MORE HOPEFUL Eighteen New Deaths and Ninety-five Verified Veri-fied Cases; Disease Is Spreading All Over the Country, From the Empire State to Cali- fornia. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, July 8. The United States public health service, co-operating with tho New York City and stat authorities, will impose rigid regulations to prevent the spread of infantile par-. par-. alysls from New York. The details will be perfected at a conference in New York between Dr. Y. 6. Rucker, assistant surgeon general of the public health service, and Hoalth Commissioner Emerson of New York. Among the first stops to be taken will "be the following: 1. The establishment of a system of notification. Persons who come in contact con-tact with the disease will be required to inform the authorities. 2. Investigation of carriers. Persons Suspected of being carriers will be subjected sub-jected to careful examination to determine deter-mine if they are carriers of the germ. Monkeys will be inoculated with, secretions secre-tions from their noses. This is declared de-clared to bo the only means of learning learn-ing whether a person carries the germ. Infectious as Smallpox. 3. Either a quarantine of houses in which the disease has occurred will be established or persons with it will be removed to a contagion hospital. Infantile In-fantile paralysis, public health officials declared today, is as infoctious as smallpox. small-pox. 0 4. Measures will be taken to prevent the spread of the disease to other states. "Wbat these stops will be has not been decided. They will be agreed upon by Assistant Surgeon G-eneral Rucker and the New York . state authorities. A quarantine against Now York City, it was said by public health service au- thorities, would not be practicable, as it would interfere with the business of the entire country. This phase of the problem ia giving the authorities great I concern, as a person who has the disease dis-ease carries the contagion forty-eight weeks. Will Inoculate Monkeys. The disease usually spreads over a state. New York, a few weeks ago, was stricken with it, and cases were report- j ed in nearly every county. Laboratory , work in New York will be devoted to experimentation in determining who are' carriers. Hundreds of monkeys, pos-siblv pos-siblv thousands, will be inoculated. The monkevs will come from the West In- 1 dies, South America and the Philippines. Philip-pines. Practicalh all of this part of . "the campaign in !New York will be de- ; voted to the discovery of means to pre- j vent the interstate spread of the dis- ease. i Almost all the state health officers and : - Rponts throughout tho country representing represent-ing the public health service reported to the public health service today. A few eporaillc cases of Infantile Kirnlysts were reported in various parts of the country, but only one was traoeable to New York. This was the case of a child in Rhode Island who had visited Brooklyn a few davs ace. Dr. Ernest A. Sweet of the public health (service stated that the reports indicated there whs no undue prevalence of the disease. dis-ease. It was epidemic only in New York City. Hospital Is Offered. The house today passed a resolution plarinsr at the disposal of the New York authorities the hospital facilities at Ellis Island for the isolation of Infantile Turalysis. I The resolution will go to the senate on i '.Monday and arrangements were made to- j dav to hurry it through the upper house. ' Stiss Jane A. Delano, head of the nurses' ! department of the American Red Cross, will leave Washington tomorrow for New 1 (Continued on Page Two.) J WILL WAGE WAR UPON iW YORK EPIDEMIC: . 1 (Oontlnued from Page Ono.) j York, where she will take charge of the : Red Cross work there In combating: infantile in-fantile paralyBis. The department of agriculture today assisted as-sisted the agencies at work against infantile in-fantile paralysis by modifying the rule prohibiting the Importation of warmblooded warm-blooded animals from the Philippine islands. This will permit the importation of a large number of monkeys with which to conduct experiments. One hundred monkeys, ordered by the Rockefeller institution, in-stitution, which have been held in Manila for more than a vear, will be started to the United States Immediately. Others will be shipped as soon as they can be contracted tor. j |