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Popular Science Monthly 



Keeping Clean Is Equivalent to Keeping 

 Cool and the Street Gamins Thorouchly 

 Approve of the Idea of Frequent Baths 



Health Service, states that in Cincinnati 

 lie saw paralyzed chickens and ducks 

 around hcimes in whii h were infanlile 

 paralysis cases, hut again there was no 

 way of connecting one tyjie of victim 

 wilh the other. 



At present the tendency is to attribute 

 the disease to dust germs. When infec- 

 ted wilh particles of dust found in the 

 rooms of paralysis victims monkeys 



Parks, Playgrounds and Re- 

 creation Piers Where Children 

 Congregate Are Closed and 

 Families of Children Are Segregated as 

 Much as Possible in Their Own Districts 



soon die. The Rockefeller Institute is 

 now carrA'ing on elaborate experiments 

 along this line, and there is some hope 

 that the niyster>' may yet be solved. 

 Fifty thousand dollars in one cash 

 prize awaits the man who solves it. 



Dr. Flexner, who has succeeded in 

 isolating tlie organism of infantile par- 

 alysis, says it is an infectious and 

 comnumicable disease wliich is caused 

 by the invasion of the central nervous 

 organs — tiie si-)inal cord and brain — of 

 a minute, filterable micro-organism which 

 has now been secured in artificial culture 

 and as such is distinctly visible under 

 the higher powers of the microscope. 



"The virus of infantile paralysis," 

 says he, "exists constantly in the central 

 ner\'ous organs and upon the nnicous 

 membrane of the nose and throat and 

 of the intestines in persons suffering 

 from the disease; it occurs less fretiuent- 

 ly in the other internal organs, and it 

 has not been detected in the gcner;iJ 

 circulating blood of patients." 



