The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-01
10 POLIO CASES
ADDED TO LIST

RALEIGH, June 30. -R- Ten
new cases of .infantile paralysis
were reported today by the State
Board of Health, bringing to 126
the number reported during June,
and at the same time drastic steps
we're being taken in infected areas
to curb the disease.
The Mecklenburg county Health
board ordered all children under
Is years of age to remain off the
public roads and streets, ordered
all Sunday schools to be closed to
children aged Is and under, and
applied the same order to all
swimming pools and amusement
places.
The action was taken unanimous
ly by the board and followed a re-
port of a third case of polio in the
county. The order will be enforc-
ed by the police.
With exception of two cases, all
cases reported today were in coun-
ties already infected, centering in
the Piedmont and upper Piedmont
sections. New cases were reported
in Person and Buncombe counties,
with the Buncombe case being de-
scribed as "a contact of Wilkes
case
Alexander 4, Ashe 8, Burke is,
Cabarrus 3, Caldwell II Catawba
40 CASTOR Is Iredell 1, Lee 1, Lin
coin 5, Rowan 8, Stanley 2, Union
!, Watauga 2, Wilkes 4. Wilson l,
Alamance l, Buncombe 1 Contact
of Wilkes, Guilford /, and Person
!.
Five deaths in the current out
break have been recorded. A num-
Ter of 'suspected'' cases are I'M
der observation in the Immediate
ly infected areas and in other coun-
ties outside the Piedmont.
Governor Broughton, meanwhile,
pledged his help in curling the
disease and approved the use of
three school buses in Catawba
county to be used in transporting
nurses within the county. Further
steps will be taken to provide
transportation of health officials
when needed, he said.
In Gastonia, DR.. Ralph McDon-
aid, Chairman of the North Caro-
lima division of the National Fed
Grafton for Combating Infantile
Paralysis, announced an emer-
gency program to combat the d.
sease.
DR.. Mcdonald designated three
emergency centers for treating the
disease; they are: North Carolina
Orthopedic hospital in Gastonia,
the Emergency hospital establish
ed at Hickory, and Charlotte Me-
mcrial hospital.
A state emergency fund is be-
ing created, he said, to meet the
situation. Money for this fund will
come from local chapters of the
federation in most of the states
100 counties.
C. H. Crabtree, state field re-
preventative of the federation, was
III Gastonia with DR.. Mcdonald.
They plan to visit all three emer-
SGlCy GGLtGIS W SOIllp1CtC pAoilo
for checking the epidemic.
DR.. Carl V. Reynolds, state
health officer, said here that the
outbreak of abnormal infection was
being stabilized in the Piedmont
and upper Piedmont areas. West
ern and Eastern North Carolina
are free of abnormal infection, he
said
He recalled that during the cpl
demic of 1885, when CTS cases were
reported during the year, theh west
ern part of the state was heavily
infected land suffered the conseq-
reported during the year, the west /
ern section is not in the current
epidemic and should not be pen
allied "by erroneous references,
or Technology"
The public may rest assured"
DR.. Reynolds said, that it will be
kept fully and frankly advised of
the sections in which the disease
occurs. However, at present the
abnormal occurrence of cases has
been kept confind to certain Pied
mont counties, and it is hoped that
it will not spread beyond that
area"