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Show ' - , - , $ I : 5 I? J. . v' N 4 I f ' -: t t - y-,. r V---:""-v - - - I 1 ' " j "j X : r 1 " '4 I - . GOVERNOR CLYDE GETS FIRST 'SHOT' DURING 'POLIO ERADICATION MONTH' Governor George D. Clyde, after proclaiming April, 1961, as Polio Eradication Month" and flanked by other high elective elec-tive officers, bared his arm to receive his first polio shot in Utah's mass immunization campaign cam-paign for 1961. Utah led the nation, according to the U S Public Health Service, in the last general vaccination drive in 1957; but, in common with all other states, the immunization im-munization level has not been maintained and, in consequence, cases of the dread disease have steadily increased. In kicking off the 1961 campaign in which it is hoped that vaccinations vaccina-tions will be so complete as to virtually eradicate the disease in Utah, Governor Clyde said: "I heartily endorse the campaign, cam-paign, sponsored nationally by the American Medical Association Associa-tion and the U S Public Health Service, to strike another blow at paralytic polio; and am proud that Utah is among the first to get the drive under way. "Our Utah people have demon strated, many times, a special genius for rising to high endeavor in emergencies, and for skillful organization ' to carry out their will. I am surfe they will do so now. It is an emergency when the nation is faced with the possibility pos-sibility of another devastating polio epidemic; and this possibility possibil-ity exists when 38 of the children chil-dren five years and under, more than 50 of adults 20 to 40, and 85 of those over 40, are not fully vaccinated." Dr. James D. Wharton, interim i director, State Department of Health, said: "We really could eradicate polio in Utah if we get virtually everyone every-one vaccinated this year, and institute in-stitute in every county a follow-up follow-up system to see that, in the future, fu-ture, every infant is immunized and carefully screen the immunization immuni-zation records of all children as they enter school. Let us hope that when this campaign is over, we will have built a system of j records and adopted simple but effective follow-up methods." |