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Show Hope Revealed For Polio Cure Research Spurs Belief That Control Possible NEW YORK, N. Y. The National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Pa-ralysis says that research for a polio cure was "on solid ground." The foundation emphasized that it still was impossible to promise a practical means of control within a given number of years. But it added: "The foundation's program of research re-search has developed scientific reasons for the belief that such control is attainable, and it has promising leads that indicate that drugs, serums and vaccines against polio are all within the realm of possibility." "It appears likely that 1949 will prove to have been a turning point in the history of infantile paralysis," paraly-sis," said the foundation's president, presi-dent, Basil O'Connor. "We may be able to halt the rising tide of polio in the not too distant future." The predictions' were contained in the foundation's annual report which also told the story of 1949, the country's worst polio epidemic year in history. The report showed that the foundation foun-dation aided 80 per cent of the 42,-375 42,-375 new patients last year, sent out a record number of respirators 803 to hospitals, and spent more than 27 million dollars on patients. |