New York City, where one-third of the Nation's 13,000 infantile paralysis cases occurred during this year's epidemic, last week offered the Nation four important suggestions concerning the disease.
1) Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, long ago assigned the infantile paralysis problem to himself. He announced that what he suspected is almost certainly true—the virus of the disease gets into the system through the mucous membranes of the nose and upper throat.
2) Dr. William Hallock Park, bacteriologist for the City, State...
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