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Show PLAGUE RECURRENCE IS NOT EXPECTED Health Commissioner . Declares Belief That Infantile Paralysis Has Been Conquered. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Recurrence next summer of the epidemic of infantile infan-tile paralysis which swept over the coun-try coun-try Tiuring last season is not likclv, in the opinion of Health Commissioner Haven TJmerson of this city, expressed in an address before the City club at a luncheon today. " It is not" to be presumed that we will have another epidemic next summer of anything like the severity of that of the past summer," said the. commission- er. ''There are no records of eommu- 1 nitics suffering twice iu successive 1 years from poliomyelitis epidemics. ht Some years probably "will elapse before we have another epidemic." Knowledge of the origin of the paraly- . sis and of the conditions favoring its; . spread is no more definite than it was during the height of the epidemic, said . Dr. H. TjRvimler of the United States-public States-public health service, who was in charge of the federal research work in this city during the epidemic. Those who . had conducted researches, he continued, had discovered a great deal about polio- . myelitiSj but had not learned bow to control its spread. . - |