Evening star., 1941-09-10
Downward Trend
in Maryland
Paralysis Cases
Prince Georges Reports
One New Illness, However
For TotuI Of 1o

1Ilc MAI ldIlu I1CdlIIi DCpdA eAl4Cht
today reported a downward trend in
infantile paralysis cases throughout
the State, although one new case
in Prince Georges County, Md, was
reported yesterday to DR.. John M.
Byers, health officer.
The new case, which occurred in
the Tuxedo area and involved 2ha-
year-old child, brings to 19 the
total number of cases in Prince
Georges County. However, an an-
topsy has disclosed that one fatal
ity previously credited to the disease
in the Colmar Manor area was
caused by cerebral hemorrhage ana
not from infantile paralysis.
Seven of the Prince Georges
County cases occurred in Laurel and
four were IN the Hyattsvi1le area.
The others were scattered.
In Montgomery County, Md, no
new cases have been reported this
week and the total for the year still
stands at six, DR.. v. L. Ellicott,
health officer, said today. Two OF
these cases, one of which was fatal,
occurred in the same family, in the
Chevy Chase area.
Only Two in Arlington.
Arlington County, Va. had one
case reported in July and one in
August, DR.. Ralph G. Beachley,
health officer, said, and Fairfax
County had six cases this year,
none within the past two weeks, DR..
G. r. Carpenter, health officer of
that county, reported. In Alex
andria the health department has
three cases and one suspicious"
case, none of which were reported
recently.
DR.. C. H. Halliday, chief epi-
demiologist of the Maryland health
department, said there were a total
of 148 cases in the State this year
and 18 reported this month. Sew
enty-two of the total number OF
cases have been in the counties and
rs in Baltimore City.
The Prince Georges County Red
Gross community sing, which was
to be held next Monday night at
the University of Maryland, has
been Cancelled by H. Clay Whiteford,
general chairman of the 1941 mem
bership drive, because of the desire
of many parents to avoid public
gatherings for themselves and their
children, it was announced today.
The Montgomery County Board of
Education analyZed the situation in
the county at meeting yesterday
and directed that the schools CO.
operate in the most advantageous
ways in carrying out professional
directions.
Daily Inspections Ordered.
School Supt. Edwin w. .Brdbme of
Montgomery County, Md, has issued
instructions to all teachers in the
system, which include provision
that daily morning inspections must
be made of each child. If any symp-
tom is indicated, the parent will be
reached at once, he said, and the
student will be isolated from other
pupils Immediately. The attendance
law will not be enforced for pupils
who are temporarily kept away be-
cause of local health conditions, DR..
Broome told the teachers.
The Maryland State Health De-
partment has issued bulletin to
all teachers in the State outlining
the symptoms and giving the ef-
fects of poliomyelitiS.
The chief source of infection is
from discharges sprayed or ex-
PEELED from the nose or throat, such
as in sneezing and coughing; the
incubation period is from three to
IA days; the clinical course of the
disease should require absence from
school not longer than 81 days.
those exposed to the disease and
who have had the disease should
be excluded from school for IA days
and those exposed who have not
had the disease should be quaran-
tined for IA days from the last ex-
posure.
The State Health Department
says there are undoubtedly many
persons infected with this disease
in whom neither paralysis nor
weakness of muscular action occurs.
These are abortive cases or carriers"