Four weeks ago the U. S. Public Health Service had record of only 21 new cases of infantile paralysis through the breadth of the land. Week later a student of St. Mark's School at Southboro, Mass, sickened with the disease. Others showed preliminary symptoms. Alarmed parents, among them some of the most intelligent as well as the most wealthy in the land, hustled their sons away from where they thought death and paralysis lurked. Last week Headmaster Francis Parkman had only 20 of his 196 enrolled boys remaining under his supervision. These...
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