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IX. BRACES AND OTHER APPLIANCES MADE IN BRACE SHOP

X. CORSETS MADE

XI. CASTS MADE

XII. X-RAYS MADE

XIII. PHYSICAL THERAPY DEPARTMENT

XIV. PATIENTS' AID

During the fiscal year 1940, there were treated at the Foundation, 296 patients, who received 29,097 hospital days' care. Of that number, 184 patients, or 62.16%, required financial assistance. These Aid patients received 20,389 hospital days' care, or 70.07% of the total hospital days' care.

XV. TOTAL PATIENTS TREATED INCLUDING FINANCIAL CLASSIFICATION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

1940

Georgia Warm Springs Foundation and The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc.

SOME CONFUSION has arisen in the minds of the public as to the relationship between Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, founded in 1927, and The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., organized in 1938.

These two Foundations are entirely separate and distinct.

It was because of the experience gained from the work done at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation that the National Foundation was created. The occasion and the reason for organizing The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., cannot be better described than it was by President Roosevelt in a statement which he made on September 23, 1937, sponsoring the creation of the National Foundation, which reads as follows:

"My own personal experience in the work that we have been doing at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for over ten years, leads me to the very definite conclusion that the best results in attempting to eradicate this disease cannot be secured by approaching the problem through any single one of its aspects, whether that be preventive studies in the laboratory, emergency work during epidemics, or after-treatment. For over ten years at the Foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia, we have devoted our effort almost entirely to the study of improved treatment of the after-effects of the illness. During these years other agencies, which we have from time to time assisted, have devoted their energies to other phases of the fight. I firmly believe that the time has now arrived when the whole attack on this plague should be led and directed, though not controlled, by one national body. And it is for this purpose that a new national foundation for infantile paralysis is being created.