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Show WASHINGTON', July 7. The federal public health service took a hand today in tho fight to end an epidemic of Infantile In-fantile paralysis in New York City and to prevent its spread elsewhere. Six government gov-ernment experts were ordered to New York to co-operate with state and city authorities and steps were taken to organize or-ganize a federal corps of surgeons and laboratory scientists to work out preventive preven-tive measures. Assistant Surgeon ' General W. C. Rucker left here tonight to participate in conferences at New York regarding means of preventing a general spread of the disease. Surgeon C. H. Lavender, stationed at New York, will be in charge of the corps of experts. A statement issued today by Dr. Rucker explained that there seldom is an Immediate Imme-diate spread of the disease directly from the epidemic area, except possibly in territory ter-ritory immediately contiguous. Usually, it said, the spread comes a year later, but so many children have been taken from New York to escape the disease that immediate spread is possible. |