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A new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital.

Illustrates the activities of the Bureau of Child Hygiene, the measures adopted by the Bureau of Infectious Diseases, the Quarantine officials, the City and State health departments and the United States Public Health Service which is striving to prevent the spread of the disease to all parts of the country. Pictures of monkeys and the experiments made upon them to solve the problem of who and what are the most dangerous "carriers" of infantile paralysis, a map of New York City showing the plague spots and a larger map showing how the disease is spreading all over the country also are included in the film. Children were also shown leaving the city for the country by boat and rail. In the picture, the affected territories were shown with scenes of uncovered garbage-cans, near which children and cats play; fruit covered with fly-specks and touched by many hands before being finally eaten; dirty and crowded narrow streets lined with unsanitary push-carts, and how the street department takes care of the garbage and flushes the streets. The sub-titles of the film which hammer home precautionary "don'ts" to mothers, instructs them how to discover and to treat the first symptoms of the disease in their children.