The Threat of Infantile Paralysis
At a joint meeting of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, and the American Orthopedic and American Pediatric societies, held in Washington in May of this year, a resolution declared that infantile spinal paralysis, which has been epidemic in several sections recently, 'is an infectious, communicable disease with a mortality of from five to twenty per cent, and that seventy-five per cent or more of the patients surviving are permanently crippled.' Health authorities are asked to investigate more thoroly the disease, with a view to its control and limitation. Surely this is the worst of all which threatens our babies, except sin.