Capsules

P: The Public Health Service released 300,000 shots of Salk polio vaccine, first to be approved in more than a month. Significantly, PHS also announced a major research program aimed at improving the Salk vaccine, mainly by using other strains of virus (than the dangerous Mahoney) and by improving tests for potency and safety tests in monkeys.

P: Packages containing aspirin or other salicylates (notably oil of wintergreen) should be clearly marked "Keep out of the reach of children," said the A.M.A.'s Committee on Toxicology. In 1952 aspirin overdoses killed at least 41 children under five, all salicylates at least 86.

P: New York's Governor Harriman named one of the most brilliant research psychiatrists available, Dr. Paul H. Hoch, 53, as State Mental Hygiene Commissioner. Budapest-born and German-educated, Dr. Hoch came to the U.S. in 1933. has headed the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

P: The armed services commissioned 19,824 physicians and 9,704 dentists under their special draft act from Oct. 1, 1950 to Feb. 1, 1955. But 28 physicians and 13 dentists were inducted as privates because they refused to apply for commissions, as were 20 physicians and eleven dentists ruled ineligible; e.g., because they refused to take a loyalty oath.

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