SPEARING SOUTH SEA FISH - Seabee Robert
Lamm, ship’s cook first class from Charleston. W. Va., uses the
sling-propelled spear with which he fished in the Southwest
Pacific. It will kill sizable fish at 12 feet under water.
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IN 11-YEAR-OLD
♦ POLIO FIGHT
In the last eleven years the
American, people have contribut
ed $29,562,742.54 to conquer in
fantile paralysis, Basil O’Connor,
president of The National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis,
. announced today at the opening
of the annual meeting of the
Medical Advisory Committees of
the National Foundation for In
^ fa.ntile Paralysis, announced to
day at the opening of the annual
meeting of the Medical Advisory
Committees of the National
Foundation at the Waldorf-As
toria Hotel. At that meeting ap
plications for grants to carry on
medical research will be consid
ered and further plans for carry
ing on the fight against infantile
paralysis will be made.
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 dollars, or more
than half of the total given, was
raised in the two years of 1943
and 1944, Mr. O’Connor said.
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“The increase in donaitons in
1943 and 1944, which probably
was due in part to the high in
c'dence of the disease, assured
the National Foundation that the
i public wished it to intensify its
i activities and to widen tis entire
i field of operations,” he added.
I “It’s almost like waking up one
i morning and finding that many of
your dreams have come true.
I This generosity of the American
j people permits us to proceed with
i an assurance we merely hoped fo
I a few years ago. We are now able
both to intensify our scientific
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search tor the ca.re and preven
tion of the disease,' and at the
same time to enlarge our field
army fighting infantile paraly
sis.
“Some-idea of the scope and
extent ol the National Founda
tion’s program of scientific re
search is shown by the fact that,
since it was organized only six
years ago, it has made 298 grants
to .74 institutions involving 114
groups of workers, in one of the
greatest scientific attacks against
any disease.”
Diming the past 11 years almost
$15,000,000 of the total raised has
been left with the counties where
raised to provide the best in
medical care for the thousands cf
new patients reported each year.
This average, about $444 per
county, per year, and $160 for
each new case of infantile paraly
sis, reported during that period.
Mr. O’Connor said.
Of the remainder of this near
ly 30 mill on dollars, the Nation
al Foundation received approxi
mately 13 million dollars to con
duct its programs of scientific re
search. education and epidemic
relief. Onehalf has been used by
the Nat onal Foundation for
grants m research dealing with
the virus, epidemiology and after
effects of infantile paralysis, edu
cation and epidemic aid as . ol
lows; virus research, $2,053,761:
ater-effects research, $1,405,292:
education, $1,179,215; epidemics,
$637,548; Tuskegee Institute,
$404,256; Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation, $825,000—totatl" $6,
508,475.
From the first four celebrations
of the President’s Birthday,
which occurred prior to the es
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tablishment of the National
Foundation, came a total of $3,
364,217. Of this sum, $1,655,825
remained in the counties where
raised to provide medical care
for those afflicted with this di
sease; $1,467,392 went to the
Georgia Warm Springs Founda
tion, for which the Birthday cele
brations were originally conceiv
ed, and $241,000 was given to a
commission to be used for scien
tific research.
Estimating that the National
Foundation and its Chapters have
expended more than $1,000,000 up
to September 1 on the 1944 epi
demic alone, Mr. O’Connor de
clared: “What the full cost of this
epidemic will be we do not know,
but certainly, in addition to what
it totals this year, there will be
the necessity of caring for many
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of its victims in years to eofne,
meanwhile continuing the care
for those of former years.
“But we do know that any
scientific program, however cost
ly, will be inexpensive and eco
nomical ;n the end for it will
some day develop the means that
w 11 permit us to cure and pre
vent this crippling malady.
The American people and their
National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis are determined
that that day will come.”
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