Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — IMPORT NURSES TO FIGHT N. Y. EPIDEMIC [ARTICLE]

IMPORT NURSES TO FIGHT N. Y. EPIDEMIC

New Educational Campaign Against Dreaded InfantHe Disease Is Inaugurated. New ork, Aug. 22. —The importation of .thirty additional nurses from Canada and the beginning of a new educational campaign gave added evidence that the department of health regards the fight against infantile paralysis as only begun. Fluctuations in the new case list and the death list, now up and now down, mean nothing, department officials declare. Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo notified the department that, in answer to its plea, permission had been obtained for thirty nurses from Canada to enter the country. These nurses were engaged last week but held up by immigration authorities because of the statute barring persons under contract. The urgency of the case impelled the bureau of immigration, a part of Mr. McAdoo’s to waive the law, for the first time in many years. The thirty nurses are expected to be of great aid in the fight. New cases in Greater New York numbered 133, thirty less than on Tuesday, while the deaths numbered 34, five less than a the previous c’hy. Total cases to date 6,655; total deaths, 1,497.