San Antonio's Fight Against Polio Epidemic

With the possibility of a serious infantile paralysis epidemic, health

authorities of the city of San Antonio, Texas attack the germ carriers

throughout the city. With the war-discovered DDT in special

sprayers, sections of the city are blanketed with the insecticide

in the fight to stop the spread of the dread poliomyelitis.

Every suspected spot is sprayed.

Even the streams are disinfected, and in the parks and public

places, children are forbidden to gather.

Tons of DDT are used in this fight against the dread disease, whose principal

target is the young. Again, war has contributed one of its discoveries

to save life.