Infantile paralysis last week pursued the course of what medical men still described as a ''mild epidemic." In Chicago, where there were 228 cases, health and education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport and in the ensuing scare, Philadelphia's mayor forbade any hospital to accommodate out-of-town cases. But the biggest infantile paralysis news of the week lay in two new artificial lungs, cheaper and simpler than the $1,000 to $2,450 big steel boxes now in use.
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