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o O Adults With High Living Standard Found More Susceptible To Polio United Press Scijce Editor By DELOS SMITH New York U.R) f Science has verified a long-held suspic ion that adults enjoying high standards of living can be al most as susceptible to polio as their children. A tightly "localized" polio epidemic in New Canaan, Conn., an expensive exclusive outer suburb of New YorkCfcity, pro vided an ideal opportunity for a thorough, scientific investiga tion. (3)r. Joseph L. Melnick, profes sor of epidemiology, Yale Uni versity School of Medicine, seized the opportunity. He and his associate!. Drs. James P. Nolan anoXBarbara H. Wilmer, have madetheir report. The epidemic began with a four-year-old girl, one of 35 pupils in ifj nursery school. She missed snjJol beginning June 4, 1954, because she was ill with I The doctors began to look under fqver but no one suspected polio at the time. Within two weeks four of her classmates and the mother of one of them were down with polio. There were two more cases in June and five more during the 1 first week of July which was the "peak week" of the lo calized epidemic. The last case occurred in late July. Contact Was Shown There were 16 cases in all, six of them in adults. Four of the children were from the nur sery school; the remainder were their brothers or sisters. Each adult was the parent of at least two small children and with al most all of them, a "contact" was easily shown either with an earlier case of polio or with a member of a family in which there was such a case. These were the surface facts. 2-8075 2-4546 O 0 0 7'(etf cTfe . : H n7S-Central ph- 0 o Lasf-minute Gift Ideas fro Wards Catalogs o fife mAnom A o THERE'S STILL TIME TO ORDER Have you finished your Christmas shopping? It's really very(gnsy ... so better do it today. Just relax at home and choose sure-to-please gifts from Wards Cata logs. Next, phone us. (We'll write your order and arrange for prompt delivery- Then you'll be assured of a happy holiday season. o LAST-MINUTE SUGGESTIONS O o o Musical Chart Bracelet Perpetual Desk Calendar Lightweight Falcon Pipe OParkerQSl" Ball Point Pen 10-Piece Punch Bowl Set "Aristocrat" Travel Alarm Littlest Angel Record, 33 13 rpm. Disney Movie Songs, 78 rpm. Davy Crocket Wrist Watch Spitz Electric Planetarium Electric Robot with Baby O Table-Top Pool Table Airguide Field Glasses Christmas Card Record Box Holiday Chocolates, 5 lb. Box .$ 9.95 . 1.89 6.50 . 5.00 10.95 4.95 3.79 .61.39 . 7.65 13.95 5.69 4.98 9.95 1.49 3.98 o USE WARDS MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN Open Wednesday Nights Til 9 the surface. They looked for polio virus in the gastrointes tinal tracts of all 35 of the school children and of their parents, brothers, sisters, and any other household "contacts." In the 16 patients, viruses were found in 83 per cent. In the 79 contracts, viruses were found in 54 per cent. The doctors took blood sam ples. The presence of high anti body levels would indicate a recent polio infection. The blood of 40 per cent of the contacts showed those levels. The obvious suggestion was that there had been a number of slight illnesses during the period of the epi demic which had been "abortive or even non-paralytic poliomyel itis." The scientific investigat ors found that there had been in 16 children and 40 adults. Spread By Contact The scientists were impressed by "the extremely invasive na ture of poliomyelitis in a group of susceptible persons, regard less of age." New Canaan's high living standards meant that the virus was not spread by poor hygiene, but by contact. But these very circumstances could also make adults of such "high socio-economic groups" more susceptible than other adults. Adults have acquired im munity to many infectious dis eases by having had brushes with their viruses. But adults who have always lived in "an excellent sanitary environment" like New Canaan's would have had fewer brushes with fewer viruses. Among epidemiologists there is some question as to the neces sity of vaccinating adults with the Salk vaccine. This and other implications the scientists left the readers of their report which was published by the New England Journal of Medicine to ponder. Mondy, December 12, 19S8 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE VB r'u'iiAiitii J You're Not Trading at The Groceteria You're Paying Too Much! BIG FREE PARKING LOTS fir! til ADMITS BURIAL Mrs. Rose Alexander, 42, keeps her eyes down as she is escorted back to jail cell at Casper, Wyo. During inquest she said she buried Barbara Alexander 28 months ago in an earthen grave after Barbara met with a fatal accident. She said James Alexander, 47, her for mer husband, unknowlingly covered the grave with concrete. MEAT MM R THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE IN THE- Along with Christmas shopping and other holiday pre parations, you women folk are pressed for time more than at any other season. Well, you won't be if you will accept this suggestion: visit the frozen food delicatessen at the MEDFORD Groceteria. There you will find a wide variety of complete meals meals prepared by the world's best cooks, so reasonably priced that your food costs will not be increased. You will save ail advance preparation work. Just heat them as instructed on the package no dishes to wash, no pots and pans to scrub. You will save so much time that your shopping and Christmas preparations can be done so leisurely that time will no longer be a factor nor shopping fatigue dreaded because of eve ning household work to follow. LIVE MODERN LIVE ECONOMICALLY yet approach Christmas festivities rested and refreshed by taking advantage of the MEDFORD Groceteria's Frozen Foods Delicatessen. OPEN EVERY NIGHT UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK Your TIGflEoriftORK SAVER Benson DeniesCharge Made by Stevenson j Washington (UP.) Agri-! culture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son has denied a charge by Ad lai E. Stevenson that Benson tried to blame the farmer's plight on wage increases of city workers. Benson, in a statement issued yesterday by the Republican Na tional committee, said the pres ent farm problem stems from unsound Democrat programs. "The farm problem of today, which Mr. Stevenson lately de cided has political possibilities, grew out of the Democrat ad ministration's refusal to face the facts," Benson said. In a speech to the AFL-CIO convention in New York last week, Stevenson accused Ben son and another Cabinet mem ber of a "design to play the ugly politics of group hatred." He said Benson had suggested in a speech that labor's wage gains widen the spread between farm prices and retail food prices, thus helping drive down farm prices. 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