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progress toward the 1972 com pletion time, and the Department said it foresees no difficulty meeting the deadline if funds remain available. When completed, H i g h w a y Department engineers estimate, Virginia’s 1.40 billion dollar portion of the interstate network will save 150 lives annually. Nationally, portions already open are saving an estimated 3,000 lives a year, and are preventing an estimated 60,000 injuries and 90,000 accidents annually. When the nation’s 41,000-mile systemhas been completed, it is expected to save 8,000 lives annually and bring some eight billion dollars in savings to automobile owners alone through reduced operating, time and accident costs. The savings to commercial vehicle owners was calculated at 750 million dollars in 1964 and is expected to mount to three billion dollars annually when the full network is completed.
11 13 Intestinal Parasites ’ In Children
Despite m od e r n improvements in hygiene and sanitation, intestinal parasites remain a threat to children today, said Dr. R. S. LeGarde Director of the. Orange County Department "'©r Health. Although more prevalent in the £>outh among children in areas Stfith warm, moist climates, the parasites are by no means confined to these regions. Pinworms, which are the most common, can thrive in all climates and are found worldwide. Their eggs are easily spread by contaminated fingers of one child to another in families and children’s groups. Giant roundworms are also resistant to wide variations in temperature and infect some 3,000,000 people in the United States. Trichinosis caused by the Trichinella para
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