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Show ' - , - s f i N - V v t - s 1 s - S s 1 Three-month-old Bobby Hill of Blanchester, Ohio was America' youngest Iron lung polio patient in 1954. This emergency March ol Dimes respirator saved his life. Now freed from the respirator, Bobby will continue to receive all the March of Dimes help he needs in his journey back to health. The March of Dimes will end on January 31. THE GAMBLE: While the Francis Report is being awaited, the National Foundation' for Infantile Paralysis is taking a $9,000,-000 $9,000,-000 calculated risk on the THE HOPE: This past summer 440,000 school children throughout America were inoculated with a trial polio vaccine, which offers great hope for the future. Now the results of this enormous trial operation opera-tion are being evaluated by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. and bis staff at the University of Michigan. The Francis Report will be issued some time this spring. Until then, no one will know whether the trial vaccine is the beginning of the end for polio. success of the trial vaccine. Here's how: the National Foundation is purchasing enough of the vaccine right now to give three inoculations inocula-tions each to about 9,000,000 people. This is so it can be used immediately where most needed, if the Francis Report is favorable. The stakes are high but worth it. THE OUTLOOK: If the vaccine is licensed for use, it will mean that thousands of children, and adults too, will be spared the ordeal of Bobby Hill, youngest iron lung patient stricken in 1954. But for Bobby Hill himself, a proven vaccine can be of no help. His will be a long and difficult fight, just as it will be for thousands of other polio patients. And even with a successful vaccine it will not be , possible to prevent many thousands of new cases during the next few years. To pay for (til this . . . vaccine, treatment of patients like Bobby Hill, new scientific research, training of treat-ment treat-ment personnel and for special equipment such as iron lungs . . . your generous contribution to the March of Dimes is needed. |