Show County Urged To Join in StateWide State State- StateWide StateWide Wide Drive To Stamp Out Polio I Dr Pro R. R J J. Parker as ag Summit County Health Officer has received re received re- re a letter from the Ut Utah h State Health Dept DePE urging that North Summit join In lit a state stateWide stateWide statewide Wide crusade to encourage mass Immunization against polio folio Statistic According to statistics the level of Immunization has dropped drop drop- dropped ped off since 1957 1951 and the number number num num- number ber of cases of ot polio has Increased increased In in- in creased during each of ot the pa past t two years Inasmuch as Utah was nationally honored for its achievement in 1957 when they led the national drive for polio immunization we wo can not be complacent so long as nS 38 38 percent per percent percent cent of children 5 years years and under and 63 per cent of ot the themen themen themen men and 48 98 per cent of the women between 20 and 40 are not fully vaccinated As President Pres Pres- ident Ke Kennedy edy said this week pres I We oWe have the means ling ing out polio It will be nothIng nothing noth- noth Ing short hort of tragic If we do donot not take advantage of the opportunity op op- we now have to fu prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent the toll toil of s suffering which paralytic po pair io o brings It I I This time let us eradicate polio in Utah as we enter this new drive w We led the nation before and we can do it it again As a a goal l let t us s accept nothing less than the eradication of polio This Is entirely fe feasible Ible I if we now give complete protection pro pro- I to virtually y all under 65 and adopt measures for the future future future fut fut- ure immunization of all babies I and picking up the missed children upon school entry Four Objectives The North Summit Health Council urge that most of the shot first shot first clinics can can be completed completed completed com com- by the end of March the shot second-shot by April 30 and the tha final one seven months later Th The Tho First The shot first for for p polio llo Immunization immunization z can cnn be given gi-en next Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- I day March 27 at North Summit High School The cost t of ot the vaccine has as been ably reduced reduced re re- J and can be given for the very low reasonable cost of ot 1 1 a shot for the series of ot shots f t. t I you act act- now The objective must be bet For those not yet Immunized a of ot two inoculations one month Intervening between them before tho end of th the tha school year The third can then be given 7 12 months months' later atter af after atter at- at ter schools reconvene Completion 2 of ot the course cours e for those only partially immunized A 3 booster inoculation for tor those those wHo have previously completed the full course Utah was nationally honored f for r its achievement t in n 1957 Lets Let's do it t again |