RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 93
epidemiology, causation, and therapy of poliomyelitis,
one of the principal epidemic diseases
attacking the nervous system. The study, directed
by Dr. W.Lloyd Aycock, .was carried out
in North Carolina, where there had been a recent
increase in the disease. Its purpose was to investigate
the effect of population immunity on a
given outbreak of poliomyelitis and, in turn, the
effect of the outbreak on population immunity.
Immunity tests were conducted in such a way
that results will be comparable with existing data
on immunity in northern populations.
The
Foundation's grant was used for the
traveling expenses of research personnel and for
supplies.
The Chicago Area Project
Field Study of Abnormal Behavior
The Chicago Area Project is an experiment.
in the prevention
of juvenile delinquency in
four small districts of Chicago where such delinquency
has been prevalent. A basic feature of
the project is the study by psychiatrists and
sociologists of examples of abnormal behavior
among the young people of the districts. This
phase of the work comes within the Foundation's
field of special interest in the medical sciences.
A grant of $22,500 was made by the Foundation
toward the general budget of the project for the
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