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 tamination. Dr. Eason recom- i mended frequent applications of cholinated lime during use of public facilities and heavier ap- plication ard burial of the pit at the close of the fair.
 Dr. Eason, Geneva Hubbard, regional nurses supervisor, City Health Officer Dr. C. C. Bailey and other medical officials visit ed the entire valley area on Mon day in survey of polio condi- tions.
 We found that the three con firmed cases of poliomyelitis were located in one region in the Butte area and that all families affected had been using water from the same stream, Dr. Eason said. The health department strongly recommended that famil- ies using that water source boil sl their water Boiling water is the safe way, he explained. Usu- ally, sufficient clorination IS enough to purify water, however, with polio it is advised that water be boiled, when taken from this type source The city water sys- tenn is of the deep well type and clorination is provided to users of the Coop water system.
 To date there have been but two cases of polio confirmed in Palmer. One was a young boy who has been cared for in his home and the other a visiting school teacher who was admitted to Providence Hospital and who died several weeks ago.
 The meeting of local officials was called following a careful survey of the local situation and to squash grapevine rumors.
 A program of gamma gobulin innoculations will be offered to those residents in the Butte area as soon as supplies arrive in the valley, Dr. Bailey said this week. Individuals will be contacted for time and place of administration.
 According to the Alaska De- partment of Health, allotments of gamma globulin are made avail able through the office of Defense Mobilization, and are based on actual number and types of polio myelitis cases reported in Alaska during 1853.
 In an effort to set up equable distribution of the limited amounts available, and to remove from the physician some of the onus of determine those individu- als who shall receive, and those who shall not, the following rec concentrations have been adopted.
 A. Who is 10 receive: l. House. hold contacts 30 years of age or under 2. Household contacts who are pregnant women of any age.
 B. When is ii to be administer ed: 1. If gamma globulin is to be administered to contacts it must be given within a period of 15 days from the date of onset of symptoms in diagnosed cases. Such contact period must have occurred within the period of three days before onset, or 7-days after onset of symptoms in the diagnosed case.
 In Palmer Dr. C. C. Bailey, as
 ocal health officer, will handle
 equests for gamma globulin, through the Department of Health, Dr. Eason stated.
 A household contact is a per son exposed to a case of poliomy- elitis who resides in the same living quarters as case of polio mylitis; or a visitor who has re- mained in the same household for a period of 24 hours, or longer, during the period of greates com municipality (which is 3 days previous to the onset of symp- toms and ' days following the on- set of symptoms of diagnosed easel
 Due to the limitations of gam ma globulin available other con- tacts must be screened carefully by the doctor requesting the gam ma globulin.
 'The best protection is still good personal hygiene, sanita- ton, and individual immuniza- tion' through living in commun- ities where there have been a number of cases. Effects of gam ma globulin are temporary" Dr. Eason said.
 Nurses at the Valley Presby-