New York City had 195 cases of infantile paralysis July 25. By Aug. 4 there were more than 800 cases, mostly in Brooklyn. Anxious suburban parents, obliged to go to the city, avoided their children upon returning home until after they had changed clothes and gargled. Child campers in New England, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were forbidden visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken...
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