FEWER CASES OF POLIOMYELITIS IN UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, September 1 (Rec. noon). —The Federal Health Service reported that infantile paralysis 'throughout the nation had declined last week for the first time in three months.
The week’s new cases totalled 3214, more than 200 fewer than the previous week. Twenty-five States reported decreases and only two reported increases. The report said that 20,513 new cases of poliomyelitis had been reported this year, compared with 11.155 for the corresponding period of 1948. Eighty-five per cent, of all cases had been children of 15 years or younger. Reuters’ Paris correspondent says that poliomyelitis will be an important subject on the agenda at the fourth ’ International Neurological Congress, which opens in Paris on September 5. There will be 1500 world specialists present, and papers on poliomyelitis will be read by Professor Sven Gard, of Sweden, Dr Albert Sabin, of Cincinatti, and Dr W. Macdonald Hammon, of San Francisco. The congress is the first held since before the war.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 5
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