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will be in Richmond’s historic Hotel Jefferson. .
Polio Victims Can
benefit From
Rehabilitation
Program
One out of every 3 polio crippled Virginians can be returned to a higher degree of self-sufficiency through continued rehabilitation, recent patient Surveys have shown, /llbis announcement came from the S$te Officc of the National Foundation in Richmond, .opening the 11958 20th Anniversary March of 'Dimes. , <"■ "The surveys conducted by 107 volunteer Virginia chapters last fall revealed that about 6,500 persons now residing in the Old Dominion have suffered the crippling effects of polio,” stated John Yeatts, State Representative of the ■ Foundation.! ■ "Of these, it is estimated by the chapters’ Medical Advisory Committees, more than'2,000 can benefit from the expanded rehabilitation program financed by the March of Dimes," he stated. ^ ."Many of these people ^an become employable through' new techniques in surgery, assistive devices, functional and vocational training,” said Yeatts. ‘‘Even beyond the humanitarian aspect of the continued care of these patients it's simply good economics to enable them to produce income rather than requiring financial support from the March of Dimes and tax supported institutes,” he commented.
The Foundation spokesman went on to say that during the ' past 20 years, six and one half million dollars, or about 65 per cent of all money contributed to the March of Dimes in Virginia has been spent for the care of patients within the state. ‘This is exclusive of all equipment, gamma globulin, vaccine, public and professional education,” he concluded.
State Health Dept
News
In view of the recent informs^ tion on radiation exposure from xraysC fntdrsted Statc groups meeting to re-evalua«* community 70 mm x-ray surveys decided that in such surveys emphasis should be placed on selective groups rather i than on a communitv-wide basis, teport* Dr. Mack I. ShanboffzT, State Health Commissioner.
Groups represented at the meeting last week were the Virginia Medical Society, the Virginia State Department of Health, the Virginia Tuberculosis Association aijd the Virginia Trudeau Society.
Speaking for the representatives attending the meeting, Dr. Shanholtz said that they recommended the use of chest x-rays to find
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