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...Health officers in Montgomery County, Ala. proclaimed that the great gamma-globulin inoculation campaign (TIME, July 13) had been a success: only six new polio cases had been reported in the week. Actually, the promptness of the sharp decline indicated that the whole costly program might have been unnecessary: the outbreak was probably dying out naturally since gamma globulin, so far as is known, could not bring such quick results...
Between them, Montgomery and Caldwell Counties had used up about one-tenth of the gamma globulin that ODM had earmarked for mass inoculations this year. There will be enough left for 20 more average-size counties...
With 84 cases (at least 30 of them paralytic) in a population of 43,000, North Carolina's Caldwell County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains was actually the nation's hardest hit. The ODM released 100,000 cc of gamma globulin for about 11,000 children under ten, who were to get their shots this week...
Technically not an epidemic site, Alabama's Montgomery County (pop. 139,000) was the first to gain recognition from federal officials as an emergency area entitled to use gamma globulin for mass inoculations. As the county's list of polio victims neared 80, the Office of Defense Mobilization allotted it 250,000 cc (67 gallons), enough to provide shots for more than 30,000 youngsters under ten. Montgomery's doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning...
...week's end, with 86 cases of polio and four deaths, Montgomery County officials felt that they had done all they could. They expected to see little effect for a week; after that, they hoped, temporary immunity conferred by gamma globulin would cut down the total of new polio cases, and especially the proportion of paralytic attacks...