"By helping to pi ovule needed personnel, equipment and finan cial aici. tlie National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis lias made the respirator comet for polio patients at the Medical College of Virginia as complete and as effective as any in ine country.' states Charles P. Cardwell. Jr.. MCV Director. Tile respirator center at MCV is an up-to-date ueminent facili ty for polio patients who require respirator care. This center serves not only polio patients from all parts of Virginia bu' also pa tients from surrounding states, according to Mr. Caldwell. Be. sides the iron lungs usually found in such a center, the MCV' facility has ’■■jcking beds winch induce breathing by rocking movements, not pack machines which aid paralyzed muscle, an Invalift which aids in lifting paralyzed patients, and trot table chest respirators, Recreational and educational equipment such . - ceding pro jectors '..Inch fla. !i pages of a book cu the ceding are also pro vided tor the pencil's who must, live in in n lungs or rocking beds. Foundation \ids "It would be ti rnoly expensive lor one hospital to stock all this (qii.pment, Mr. Cardwell raid, I iu: equipment iias been given ■ • i1 ■ ,".e! i "tiei .... ...» Na tional Foundation or by some in dividuals who have become inter ested in polio through the Foun dation," he continued. The polio upsurge usual y i onu s in late summer when many MCV nurses and physical therap ists are on vacation, according io Mr Cardwell. Ii is a! this tunc, lie explained, that Uie National Foundation steps in and provides additional personnel to meet these emergencies.

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