The epidemic of infantile paralysis in Los Angeles and San Francisco is not so dangerous as indicated by the number of cases (TIME, July 2), proclaimed Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service last week. He did not think that the situation warranted any discouragement of normal business, recreation or tourist traffic.
General Cumming's optimism sprang from the unprecedentedly light mortality of the disease, which sometimes kills as many as 27 out of 100 victims. California's present mortality is less than 1.5%. Why this is so no authority has...
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