OCR Text |
Show Predicts Intensity Polio Cases for 1951 ANN ARBOR Approximately 27,000 cases of polio will occur in the United States during 1951, a University of Michigan school of public health statistician has predicted. pre-dicted. "There are a number of reasons for supposing that 1951 will be a far less severe year for polio than the record year of 1949 during which about 43,000 cases were reported," re-ported," Dr. Fay M. Hemphill indicated. in-dicated. Dr. Hemphill's "guesstimate" Is based on figures supplied to him through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., by the United States public health service which receives weekly reports re-ports from the various state health departments throughout the nation. na-tion. Since June, 1950, he has been making a continuous statistical study of the areas and number of polio cases occurring in the United Unit-ed States. His studies are sponsored spon-sored by grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Par-alysis, Inc. |