Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-26 | Page 1 | Studying a New Disease

Infant Paralysis in Corn-j Corn-j municabl: and Leaves Deformities New York. Aug. 2. Infant paralysis paraly-sis will oop he added to Ike list of I communicable diseases that must h reported ly nil pn.ate practitioners I and public hospitals to the New Yor! ; departnifnt of health. Only one-tenth I of those affected di.. but nearly all I who recover are crippled for life. I Di. Walter Bensel. sanitary super-! super-! intenilent of the department, will make a determined effort to collect data recording the dlseaee of which, III tie is known at present. "It is onlv wlt'i.ln a short time." h says, "llul the dlsra-e has been class. Hied as communicable. Its most dangerous dan-gerous period and that in which it riost corumunleatle is In Its Inlti il ! stage when the patient his a hlg;i fever "How the disease is communicated from on buaiau being to another wo do not know, and we can give alis lutely no adbe as to vmrdlng a.tin-;'. it. As a general rule. !iowevr, freh air is a.- good dlsl.ileetsnt as there is. and the child is in much less drn-ver drn-ver when in the open than shut up in the house."