Polio Vagaries

Infantile paralysis, 1948, last week kept up its bullying, unpredictable course: P:There was a dip in new cases in North Carolina, hardest hit of all states. The board of health reported the lowest one-day polio incidence in two weeks, 27 cases. The epidemic, with more than 1,000 victims, might be waning. P:The news from California was worse. Polio was officially labeled "epidemic" in Los Angeles County, where there had been 427 cases since the beginning of July. Total for the state: 803. P:News from the country as a whole stayed bad: 1948 might set a new polio record. Total cases reached 4,586, compared with 3,256 for the same period in the record polio year 1946.

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