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Show American People Contribute 30 Million Dollars To Fund In the last eleven years the American people have contribut-$29,562,742.54 contribut-$29,562,742.54 to conquer infan tile paralysis, Basil O'Connor, of The National Foundation for ' Infantile Paralysis, announced to day at the annual meeeting of the Medical Advisory Committee of the National Foundation. This money was raised through the celebration of President Roosevelt's Birthday and the March of Dimes, held in January of each year, starting in 1934. Sixteen million dollarsmore than half the amount of the total given, giv-en, was raised in the two years of 1943 and 1914. The increase in donations in 1943 and 1944, was probably due in part to the incidence of the disease. di-sease. Some idea of the scope and extent ex-tent of the National Foundations program of scientific research is shown by the fact that, since it was organized only six years ago, it has made 298 grants to 74 in-stitutions in-stitutions involving 114 groups of workers, in one of the greatest scientific attacks against the di-( sease. From the first four Celebra- tion's of the Prresident's Birthday which occured prior to the establishment estab-lishment of the National Foundation, Found-ation, came a total of $3,364,217. of this sum, $1,655,825 remained in the counties where raised ; to provide medical care fo- those afflicted with this disease; 467, 392 went to the Georgia! Warm Springs Foundation, for! which the Birthday Celebrations -were originally conceived, nndl $241,000 was given to a commission commis-sion to be used for scientific research. |
