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Show "Let's Finish the Job" Theme of March of Dimes "Let's Finish he Job" is the theme of the 1957 March of Dimes campaign now being conducted in Utah County and throughout the nation. "The March of Dimes will be finished fin-ished with polio only when polio is finished as a crippler of human beings be-ings and when repair of the damage dam-age it has done is carried to the limit of our knowledge and ability," abil-ity," stated Glen Brown, chairman of the local chapter of the National Nation-al Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Paraly-sis. "This cannot happen all at once," he continued, "not even with the help of the Salk vaccine. Finishing Finish-ing up the polio job will take many millions of dollars which are needed to complete four programs: patient aid, research, professional education, and prevention." The March of Dimes job is to see to it that no polio patient is denied the care he needs for lack of funds, said Mr. Brown. The job remains unfinished because some 80,000 persons stricken by polio in years past still must foe helped to attain better and more useful lives. The job is unfinished because polio struck at more thousands in 1956 and many of these new patients pa-tients need care, he went on. The job is unfinished because people will be stricken by polion in 1957 and will look to the March of Dimes for help. The search for knowledge must also go on, continued Mr. Brown. March of Dimes supported scientists scient-ists are working to make further improvement on the vaccine, learn more about the duration of immunity, immun-ity, discover vaccine production methods that will preclude future shortage, carry on the search for a drug that will prevent paralytic polio, dig deeper into basic studies stud-ies in virology and related sci- enoes, and further the development of improved techniques in treatment treat-ment and rehabilitation of the disabled. dis-abled. The polio job is still unfinished, said the chairman, because there are still estimated shortages of 50,000 practicing nurses, 5,500 physical therapists, 6,500 occupational occupa-tional therapists, and 1,000 medical medi-cal social workers to care for the physically disabled. The March of Dimes has financed the training of thousands of these urgently needed experts. The final part of finishing the polio job is working toward total polio prevention by inducing the public to get shots of Salk vaccine vac-cine at once, concluded Mr. Brown. |