23 MAY 1958, Page 20

POLIO

SIR,—I feel impelled to thank you for giving pub- licity to Pharos's common-sense notes on the polio panic which has been so painstakingly inoculated into the minds of the unthinking public. I can only liken it to the hydrophobia scare in the days of my youth when anyone scratched by a dog's tooth was rushed off to Pasteur, and a new disease, known as 'laboratory' or 'paralytic rabies,' was created by his inoculations.—Yours faithfully,