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Show . Polio Vaccine Tests To Get Underway Here April 29; Procedure Explained Dr. Riley Clark, president of Utah county Medical Med-ical Society, today urged all parents of children in the first, second and third grades of school who desire their children to be included ins the polio vaccine tests to send in without delay signed request forms for this purpose. The tests will begin in Springville April 29. A simple form on which parents or guardians request that their children participate .in the nationwide nation-wide study being conducted by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was recently distributed. A meeting for parents and the general public has been set for tonight at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium to discuss the polio vaccine tests to be given first, second and third grade students upon written request of parents or guardians. The procedure being followed in Springville is as follows: The room mother of each grade participating has selected school mothers for each ten children. Each school mother mo-ther will contact' indivdaully the parents on her list and leave the literature for study. She will again contact the parents and pick up the slips whether approved or disapproved. dis-approved. "It is very important that the slips be returned." The school mothers will also be in charge of her assigned group going to and from the clinic which will be held at the Memorial hall on April 29, May 6 and June 3 and in Mapleton in the grade school auditorium on April 27, May 4, and June' 1. The shots will be given in the arm commencing at 9 a.m. on these dates. Many of the forms already have been returned, .but it is essential that all be sent jn promptly, Dr. Clark said, as no child may participate par-ticipate without written request. The National Foundation hopes the 'trials wil linclude between 500,-' 000 and 1,000,000 children. Pupils in the first, second and third grades of school in selected areas in many parts of the nation will receive the trial vaccine against polio this spring. Utah County has approximately ,6000 children in the first three grades of . its public, private and parochial schools. One half of the children participating partic-ipating upon the written request (Continued on page two) Public Invited to Easter Service ..Sunday (Continued from page One) of their parents will receive a trial vaccine against polio and the other half will bet a substance which looks exactly like the trial vaccine but has no effect. No one taking part in the trials not even the medical authorities, will know which child receives the substitute. Coded identification will not be interpreted until the results are studied later. The health records rec-ords of children receiving the sud-stitute sud-stitute are needed for comparison in the scientific evaluation of the trial vaccine's effectiveness in prevention pre-vention paralytic polio. Dr. Clark again emphisized that in the local trials the National Foundation is testing the vaccine's effectiveness, not its safety. Each batch of the trial vaccine has been tested for safety three times be-fore-it is shipped. Tests are made by the manufacturer, by the Virus research laboratory of the University Univer-sity of Pittsburgh and by the la- boratory or biologies control or tne National Institutes of Health, a branch of the U. S. Public Health Service. The vaccine to be tested here and elsewhere was devlopd by a rsearch grantee of the National Foundation, Dr. Jonas E. Salk of the University of Pittsburg. He has given it to his own three sons and to thousands of other children and adults in the Pittsburgh area. All those connected with the test in this county the local doctors doc-tors who will administer the trial vaccine or the control substance to the children, the nurses, teachers teach-ers and lay workers are volunteers. volun-teers. Dr. Clark is in charge of the project. Each child will receive three doses of a pinkish watery fluid. There will be a one-week interval between the first and second dose and at least a four-week interval between the second and third dose. The substance will be adminstered into the arm. The nationwide, test of the new polio vacine is expected to cost 7,500,000. The National Foundation Founda-tion has spent 16 years and $20.-500.00 $20.-500.00 in March of Dimes funds on its research program. |
