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thorne District, Mrs. H. B. [Wood, Jr., Stonewall District, I Mrs. Mary R. Miller, WakeI field District, Mrs. A. C. Latham, Jackson District, and Mrs. Frances Foster, Hampton District. The March of Dimes is fighting birth defects because each year these tragic conditions rob more than a quarter million American children of their birth-right; to enter the world healthy and grow normally. Until recently, the parents of many children born with birth defects heard only the heartbreaking answer from their doctors; "there’s nothing we can do." But now, thanks to the March of Dimes there is a nationwide network of treatment and diagnostic centers where teams of experts deal with the medical, social, and economic problems caused by birth defects. In 1966 The National Foundation and its chapters provided aid for an estimated 9,000 Polio Victims at a cost exceeding $1,790,000, exclusive of Respirator equipment. The provision of respiratory equip ment to polio patients must be continued. The March of , Dimes still provides polio victims with expensive equipment they need just to breathe. 1
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