ANTERIOR

poliomyelitis, or infantile PARALYSIS.* BY

H. Sur geon

Chitty, M.S., F.R.C.S.,

to the Bristol

Royal Infirmary and Orthopedic Hospital; ?hsuiting Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for and Women, Bristol.

Tij

"

subject

of infantile

paralysis

to

Winford

Sick Children

is of wide

general

calls treatment of almost every for0^8^' the co-operation of the general practitioner with S*nce

case

"

ysician, surgeon, pathologist and public health 6r' ^le (^sease ^ias ^een known for a long time, havmg fjrs^. |jeen described by an Englishman, Michael

nderwood,

in 1784.

Of late years the annual notifications in this country ave Varied between a minimum of 386 in 1922 and convinced that more common than these figures u d suggest, and that many of the milder cases ain undiagnosed while yet more escape notification. of

10

^^se^se

1,396 in 1926.

I

am

is much

Great Britain has been lucky to have escaped serious epidemics such as those which have icted other countries. The greatest of these attacked -York City and State in 1916, when there were '

j

Cases and

the

mortality exceeded

le Saine area more *

than 2,000

A

25 per cent.

cases were

reported

paper read at the meeting of tie Tf tli Bristol and Somerset Branch of. the British Medical Association o '05th January, 1933.