Text Appearing Before Image: imately five per cent; the presentrate is about twenty per cent. In 1907the victims numbered two thousand fivehundred. What makes the situation the moreserious is the fact that medical sciencedoes not know how the disease is carried.In scarcely one case out of eight hundredhas it been po.ssible to trace the sourceof infection. .A few years ago it wasannounced that the stable fly transmit-ted the malady. But in Buffalo, duringan epidemic, this theory was disprovedwhen districts thick with flies werecomparatively free from the disease. Formerly extreme dr\ness and heatwere given as a cause. However, theBuffahj plague occurred during an un-usually wet summer. In an epidemic onthe Pacific Coast it was discovered thaicoincitlentally there was an outbreak oilame colts. The two could not beconnected, however. Deputy SurgeonW. C. Rucker of the Inited States He Has Heard That HisSafety Depends UponKeeping His SurroundingsClean and He Looks asif He Means to Do It 399 400 Popular Science Monthly Text Appearing After Image: Keeping Clean Is Equivalent to KeepingCool and the Street Gamins ThorouchlyApprove of the Idea of Frequent Baths Health Service, states that in Cincinnatilie saw paralyzed chickens and ducksaround hcimes in whii h were infanlileparalysis cases, hut again there was noway of connecting one tyjie of victimwilh the other. At present the tendency is to attributethe disease to dust germs. When infec-ted wilh particles of dust found in therooms of paralysis victims monkeys Parks, Playgrounds and Re-creation Piers Where ChildrenCongregate Are Closed andFamilies of Children Are Segregated asMuch as Possible in Their Own Districts soon die. The Rockefeller Institute isnow carrAing on elaborate experimentsalong this line, and there is some hopethat the niyster> may yet be solved.Fifty thousand dollars in one cashprize awaits the man who solves it. Dr. Flexner, who has succeeded inisolating tlie organism of infantile par-alysis, says it is an infectious andcomnumicable disease wliich is caused
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