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Medicine: Epidemic Aftermath

The chilly weather which swept the country last week marked the end of the infantile paralysis season. For the next six or seven months parents may rest easy on that score. With the danger period behind them, doctors reviewed just what they had accomplished in 1935 with a disease which made epidemic headlines during the past summer (TIME, June 24, et seq.).

In Milwaukee, before the American Public Health Association, Professor John Albert Kolmer of Philadelphia declared: "Up to the present time between 10,000 and 12,000 children have been immunized with my vaccine...

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