Show INVESTIGATING g i w I CAUSE AusE OF I Government Health Hc Experts Are Studying Infantile Paralysis and Its Germs WASHINGTON July 30 Owing to tho prevalence of Infantile paralysis In hi this city ell and elsewhere throughout tho the country countr a government investigation Lion tion la Is isto to be bo made Into tho the cause of or I Ithe the disease This was vas decided on to today t day after a conference between Sur Surgeon goon geon General Wyman of the public health and marine hospital service I Dr John F Anderson director I I of or the tho hygienic laboratory of that service I ice The rhe Investigation will he ho start started started ed cd as ns soon Moon as Dr W V H II Frost a memo meat member meather her ber of ot Dr Andersons staff return from Mason City Iowa where ho is studying the disease science The Tho nature of the germ which cause the disease la Is according to Dr Ander Antler Anderson son Bon a practical mystery to medical Tho appalling list of oC deaths deatha of in said Dr Anderson Is not I tho the most distressing feature of oC tho the disease as thousands of children are I permanently crippled or deformed tho the disease not nol being heing necessarily fatal It U seldom attacks attack a child old older older older er than four OUI years but adults occa occasionally Blonn have been victims In my opinion the tho disease is both infectious and contagious certainly infectious I as has been heen proved by experiments The disease begins beins to lo assort itself early carl earl In Juno June reaches its height In Tilly luly and August and passes away In September Sept |