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Speaking at the Founder's Day Dinner last Thanksgiving Day, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who heads the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, said:

"It should be made very clear that even at its inception, the whole purpose of the work of the Foundation was on a broad and nationwide scale, and even in the first days of the Foundation there was an important purpose -- a purpose which went far beyond the possibility of treatment of several hundred victims here at Warm Springs.

"We who understand the even greater objective realize that not hundreds but literally thousands of children and others are laid low by infantile paralysis every year that passes. I need only cite the simple fact of over 6,500 new cases of infantile paralysis in New York State during the single year 1931. The Foundation owes a debt to these cases as well as to those who are able to come to Warm Springs. That is why it has become clear that the time has arrived for setting up in permanent form the second objective of the Foundation -- an Extension Service to reach thousands of other people."

Dr. LeRoy W. Hubbard, who served the Foundation as Surgeon-in-Chief from its organization until December 1931, was chosen to undertake this great new work. Dr. Hubbard has had the widest kind of experience with infantile paralysis, including direction of the orthopaedic work of the New York State Department of Health for several years and has given a splendid impetus to the new work during the past few months.

The main objectives of the Extension Service are to:

1. Consult with state, county and city commisisoners -sic- of health.
2. Advise with hospitals upon request in regard to pools and special methods in the after-treatment of infantile paralysis.
3. Consult with physicians in all parts of the country in regard to general or specific problems concerning infantile paralysis.
4. Address meetings of doctors, physiotherapists or nurses, upon invitation and to attend clinics or make examinations upon request.
5. Make trips into areas where infantile paralysis is epidemic.
6. Address Kiwanis, Rotary and other service clubs or lay groups interested in work for the physically handicapped.

Dr. Hubbard has motion picture films suitable for showing to either lay or professional groups.

The following outline of appointments is printed with the thought that it will aid doctors, physiotherapists, Warm Springs alumni and other readers of The Polio Chronicle in getting in touch with Dr. Hubbard:

April 19th Rochester, New York
To address International Society for Crippled Children.

April 21st Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For meeting of County Medical Society and Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association.

April 28th Amityville, L.I.
For Suffolk County Medical Society meeting

May 3rd Schenectady, New York
For County Medical Society meeting

May 4th Hudson, New York
Columbia County Medical Society meeting

May 18th Poughkeepsie, New York
Dutchess and Putnam Counties Medical Society

May 19th Geneva, New York
Academy of Medicine meeting

June 8th Saranac Lake, New York
Meeting of County Medical Society

Personal mail should be addressed to Dr. Hubbard at 227 Westchester Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York. Communications to him regarding appointments in connection with his extension work may be sent to the same address or directed to Dr. LeRoy W. Hubbard, Extension Director, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 120 Broadway, New York City, or Warm Springs Georgia.