In coming to our rescue through last year's epidemic, the National Foundation exhausted its funds from the 1946 March of Dimes and drew heavily upon its resources.
The total of dead for that epidemic was more than 20 percent of the victims, most of whom were young children.
Men absent under orders from their station upon duty which involves travel and also temporary detentions during the jour...
Doctors knew what to do--and not only doctors but nurses and physical therapists--because the National Foundation had fi...
The second of the two epidemics struck last year--first in Florida, then in Alabama, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Missour...
Let me show you by an example what the National Foundation for Infantile paralysis has achieved.
I refer to the continuing fight against the scourge of infantile paralysis.
As the total cases mounted, panic spread; fantastic cures were advertised, for sale and not for sale.
If there is one of you who has not yet joined the March of Dimes, I urge you to go now and enlist.
The National Foundation, supported by your gifts, reaches into every corner of the country to find and help the stricken...
This order shall be effective as of November 13, 1946.