Polio

Eleven weeks after the epidemic's peak (TIME, Sept. 25), a belated report--451 new cases of infantile paralysis for the week ending Nov. 18--made it official that 1944 is the second worst polio year in U.S. history. The 18,490 cases thus far reported exceed 1931's full-year total, but are mercifully short of 1916's 27,621.

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