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Soft day finally arrived in New York City today as thousands of children lined up in a hundred fifty public schools this morning and got their first shots of polio vaccine. This is the day we've long been waiting for paralytic Poliomyelitis So not a common occurrence is a tragic one. These children like the ones an ocular did last year have a much better chance of escaping paralysis today's turnout was good one hundred percent of those that signed up did not turn up for shop but we didn't expect them to there is a better than eleven percent normal absenteeism from illness in these great today too was a Catholic holiday and many Catholic children were out of school because of that I am sure too that some parents have decided to postpone vaccinations because of the confused national situation as regards the polio program but what's important is that because so many thousands of children are being vaccinated this spring there will be fewer cases of paralytic polio this year.