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Show REPORT GIVEN ON INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES On the eve Qf infantile paralysis summer outbreaks, a recapitulation recapitula-tion of the figures available, show that a number of poliomyelitis cases in the country is running about fifty percent ahead of a year ago, it was announced today by Dr. Don 'W. Gudakunst, Medical Medi-cal Director of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Paraly-sis, Inc. As of mid-May, the number of new cases this year were 642, as compared with 424 cases for the same period in 1944. Sharp increases have been reported re-ported in the New England states, Middle Atlantic states, South Atlantic At-lantic area, and the East South Central states. In the Pacific Coast and West South Central areas which have been hard hit during the past two years, there has been a noticeable drop in the number of new cases. The remainder re-mainder of the country is running about the same as last year. . While the fact . that there are fifty per cent more cases in the country this year than in the same period in 1944, "this is not an alarming situation but it should be watched carefully," said Dr. Gudakunst. The Medical Director also declared that "The National Foundation, based on its experience experi-ence of assisting in severe outbreaks out-breaks of infantile paralysis during dur-ing the past years, is in splendid condition to render real service to medical and public health authorities authori-ties in an epidemic of infantile paralysis wherever it, may occur. We stand ready and willing to help the state, county, and local health authorities at a moment's notice." As a further aid in the fight agains-t infantile paralysis, the National Foundation is distributing hundreds of thousands of bulletins bulle-tins entitled "When Polio Strikes'' which includes many helpful hints for parents. It also contains a series se-ries of simple precautions to be taken by parents during the summer sum-mer months. |