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Show ,,,.. a The March of Polio is OUT-PACING THE MARCH OF DIMES March of Dimes incurred $5,000,000 debt aiding 67,800 Polio patients in 1951. This included 45,000 cases carried over from previous years. Despite yearly increases in March of Dimes receipts, the rising tide of . polio has forced the National Foundation into debt each of the last four years. The debt in 1951 was approximately $5,000,000. The financial finan-cial crisis faced by the March of Dimes has been brought about not only by increased incidence but also by increased costs and increased numbers of carry-over cases requiring aid long after they have been stricken. The March of Dimes aided 45,000 such cases last year, in addition to the four out of five new patients needing aid in 1951. |