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AUSTRALIA

Thank you very much for sending me a copy of your magazine. I've sent it on to Miss Joan Tuxen, the Secretary of the Australian Advisory Council for the Physically Handicapped and have asked her to insure that it is brought of voluntary agencies and rehabilitation centres that are particularly concerned with the care of chronic respiratory polios. It is a most interesting publication, and I am sure it will enlist many correspondents from this country.
Dr. G. G. Burniston
Melbourne, Australia

ARGENTINA

Have just finished, reading your really excellent magazine and will be delighted to put you into touch with those of our patients who understand English. With very best wishes for ever increasing success to your venture.
Dra. Gwendolyn Shepherd
Buenos Aires, Argentina

ITALY

Ho ricevuto in questi giorni il primo numero di "La Voce dei Polio mielitici"; che la "Associazione Nazionale di Bologna" spedisce ogni mese. Dal giornale ci informano che, negli "Stati Uniti" e stata fondata una "Associazione per poliomielitici e che sia no stati colpiti anche nel sisterma respiratorio e invitano gli iteresati a scrivere all V/Associazione. E' per questo che io mi permetto di scrivervi; essendo anch'io una poliomielitica e essendo appunto stata colpita anche da una filtrazione ai polmoni.

Mi chiamo: Emiliana Tonelli di Giuseppe e di Andreinl Faustina nata a Fivizzano il 8-6-1935. Provincia Massa Carrara. Ora resiedo a Genova, loca1ita Sottocelle; dato che i1 Direttore di un Instituto di Don Orione, ha messo il mio Babbo come custode in una ville dell' Instituto. Desidrerei iscrivermi anch'io alla Vostra Associazione; con la speranza di non essere stata troppo indiscreta porgo distinti ossequi.
Emiliana Tonelli
Genova, Italia

Translation: I have received this past few days the first issue of the Voice of Poliomyelitis which the National Association at Bologna sends us monthly. The direction of the newspaper is informing us that in the U.S. an association has been founded for the poliomyelitis people who have been struck in the respiratory system and are inviting interested people to write to the association. It is for this reason that I allow myself to write you; since I am also a polio and I have been suffering with an infiltration in the pulmonary system.

My name is Emiliana Tonelli, daughter of Giuseppe and Andreini Faustina. Born at Fivizzano on June 8, 1935, Province of Massa Carrara. Now I am residing at Genova, in the section of Sottocelle; due to the Director of the Institute of Don Oriona, since the Director has hired my father to be custodian of a Villa belonging to the Institute. I would like very much also to subscribe to your magazine. With the hope that I have not taken advantage of being too forward.
Emiliana Tonelli
Genoa, Italy

Two desperate fathers in Italy ask us for help:

Perhaps you and your neighbors would like to send some clothes and gifts to the following two families. (Our translations from the Italian were done by amateurs.)

I write to your Association. I can do no work. I have 5 children. The oldest one is a paralytic too -- leg, feets and arms, he can't move. The little girl is same way, so I come to you humbly if you would be os some kind of help to get me out or this misery. So I hope this Association will examine my state of misery and make some recommendations.
Cantinini Italo
Cagli. Via Flaminia N. 92
Pv. Pesaro, Italia

My situation is very bad and desolating. My two children are paralysed in both legs. Today I find myself in a state of misery. I have written to the Italian Voice of Poliomyelitis and until now have not received help. In my monthly paper I found the address to write in America. It pleases me to find that someone can help us in this sad situation that we find ourselves. In Italy, it is not like America where you can get help. My girls are seven and two years old and it breaks my heart not to be able to take care and clothe them like a father should. Sometimes my heart feels so bad because I brought them in this world and can't help them. I think it is a sin to say this but I can't help it. I sincerely hope that someone with a heart can help us in our time of need. As I write his letter I have found hope that the generous people of American will help us.
Cambria Raimondo
The way of Torino 21, Number 55
Messina, Italy (Sicily)

ENGLAND

I should like to congratulate you on the appearance of Toomeyville Jr Gazette. There must be about a 100 respiratory invalids after poliomyelitis in this country and I should like to help you get in touch with them. We have three respiratory invalids at our centre here, but only one of them realizes what the future holds in store as she has been on artificial respiration for about three years. She uses an electric typewriter with her mouth and gets pushed around on an electrically operated trolley with the positive pressure respiration pump on the platform.
W. Ritchie Russell, M.D., D.Sc.
F.R.C.P., Director Dept of Neurology,
United Oxford Hospitals, Respiration Unit,
Churchill Hosp.