Show mysterious DISEASE RAGING thousands of victims of infantile paralysis surgeon general byarn investigating washington july 0 20 0 O owing to the prevalence of infantile paralysis ln in this city and el elsewhere throughout the country a government investigation la Is to be made into the cause ot of the disease this was decided on oil today after a conference between surgeon general ayam of the public health and marine hospital users sen ice and dr john P F anderson director of the hygienic laboratory of that eThe investigation will be started as soon as dr W 11 II frost a member of dr andersons Ander sens staff returns from mason city la ia where here he I 1 if studying the disease the nature of the germ gerin which causes tile the disease la Is according to dr anderson a practical mystery to medical science the appalling list or of deaths of infants said ur dr anderson is not tile the most distressing feature for tile disease as thousands of children are permanently crippled or deformed the disease not being necessarily fatal it seldom attacks a child older than 4 years but adults occasionally have hare been victims in ill my iny opinion the disease Is both infectious infections as has haa been proved by experiments the disease begins to assert itself early in fit june reaches its height in july and august and passes away in september |