Scientists now
HOLD OUT HOPE OF A
VACCINE AGAINST POUO,
MAYBE WITHIN TWO
YEARS-FIRST THEY
MUST LEARN HOW
MANY STRAINS OF
DANGEROUS POUO
VIRUS THERE ARE
THEN VACCINES COULD
BE MADE TO PROTECT
HUMANS AGAINST ALL
THESE STRAINS * • •
MEANWHILE THERE
IS A STEADY PROGRESS
IN TREATING POLIO,
BETTER DETECTION,
BETTER AND MORE
FACILITIES AND
KNOWLEDGE TO AID
THE SICK.
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Monkeys have been vac
cinated SUCCESSFULLY, BUT
ONLY AGAINST ONE OR TWO
OF THE KNOWN STRAINS OF
POLIO VIRUS...ANOTHER
STRAIN STILL GIVES THEM
FOLIO. _
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HOW WERE LEARNING HOW MANY
POLIO VIRUSES THERE ARE — A
VACCINE MADE FROM ALL OF THEM
WOULD PROTECT YOU FROM POLIO.
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Unlike penicillin against pneu
monia, THERE'S NO MAGIC DRUG
YET TO HALT POLIO—BUT THE
J SEARCH FOR ONE CONTINUES ._
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March of Dimes Drive
i In Final Week
As the 1952 March of Dimes
campaign neared its close this
week, national and local officials
of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis joined in pre
dicting that the American people
would see to it that the March of
Dimes overtakes and keeps pace
with the quickening march of
polio.
Doubling of the March of Dimes
period this year was necessitated
by tripled incidence of polio dur
ing the last four years. Each year
the National Foundation has gone
into debt providing for patient
care of children and adults strick
en with polio—the only epidemic
disease still on the increase in
America.
Incidence during the last four
years has been so high that an en
tirely new concept of polio has
been developed, a concept geared
to 30,000 cases a year instead of
the ten to twelve thousand cases
experienced during the previous
decade.
Since scientists say it is likely
that accelerated polio incidence
will continue until the final an
swer to the disease is discovered,
it seems clear that the only way
left open to cope with the chal
lenge of this frightening new con
cept is to meet it squarely with
a new concept of giving.
Only a new and enlarged con
cept of giving wTill enable the na
tion to cope ,with the three big
increases that cloud the polio
picture — increased incidence, in
creased numbers of carry-over
cases requiring expensive long
term care, and increased costs of
hospitalization, trained personnel
and equipment.
On National Foundation records
are cases that have cost upwards
of $30,000; and bills of $5,000 to
Doctor Borrows Toy Gun
To Treat Boy's Ear
LONDON, (/P)—A British doc
tor told Friday how he recently
shot a small boy in the ear—with
a water pistol, for medical pur
poses. Results: excellent.
Writing in the British Medical
Journal, Dr. C. P. Lewis of Hove
said the boy had a sore throat and
earache. The ear was plugged
with wax.
“I had not brought my ear
syringe with me,” said Dr. Lewis,
“and it was essential to remove
the wax. As no syringe was avail
able it occurred to me the little
boy might have a water pistol.
Discovering that one was in the
house, it was brought forward
and one shot displaced the wax.”
$10,000 per year tor many other
patients are by no means rare.
All of these facts make clear
why the 1952 March of Dimes
must succeed and why its slogan
this year is: “This fight is yours."
Chairman Mclvor stated today
that the school children had con
tributed $57.95.
He also stated that 'anyone not
using the miniature iron lung re
ceptacles which have been placed
in the business houses may make
their contributions direct to the
March of Dimes and mail to the
City Clerk.
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Safely Roadhouse Changes Hands
In a transaction reported over
the week-end, the historic road
house at Port Safety was pur
chased by Herbert James, of
Solomon, from Virgil Warneke of
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Wilson Predicts
Higher Prices
For This Year
WASHINGTON, (/P)— Defense
Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said
Saturday there is a “real danger”
-that inflationary pressure may
force prices higher this year.
Testifying before a Senate
House committee studying the
President’s annual economic re
port, Wilson said “The crucial
test,” as far as inflation is con
cerned, “is just ahead.”
“It will be during the next year
that supplies will be shortest,”
he said. “After that we may ex
pect a period of increasing im
provement as we get closer and
closer to the accomplishment of
the objectives of the mobilization
program.”
With the continued diversion of
scarce materials to the military
and to industrial expansion and
with continued increases in con
sumer purchasing power, he said,
“there is real danger of serious
pressure upon prices.”
He said it is regrettable but
true that civilian economy must
suffer while the defense program
moves forward and said short
ages of materials will hurt indus
tries not able to convert to de
fense production.
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