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To the Editor: —Dr. Gaylord Anderson is quite correct in his criticism of the too-sweeping editorial comment in the Sept 1 issue ofThe Journal( 181 :784) concerning my article titled, Poliomyelitic Paralysis and Tonsillectomy Reconsidered, which appeared in the May, 1962, issue of American Journal of Diseases of Children ( 103 :658). In my interpretation of the findings, I was more reserved than was the editorial. Nevertheless, the editorial may have been useful in drawing attention to one of the dissident findings of a thorough study of poliomyelitis in Seattle. These findings, which are presented in three papers, 1-3 indicate that new insight can yet be gained into this complex and elusive disease by exhaustive analysis of its community epidemiology. In the first paper, 1 after the community historical and immunological setting is documented there is presented an analysis of the distribution of paralytic poliomyelitis according to time, place, age,
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