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During the summer and fall of 1923, there occurred throughout Kansas and its bordering states a rather severe epidemic of anterior poliomyelitis. I have followed as many cases of this epidemic as possible, studying them for a year, and feel that I now have statistics and conclusions that will bear reporting. This epidemic centered around the Kansas state capital, Topeka, forty-nine of the 148 studied cases occurring in that city. The remaining cases radiated out from Topeka along the main highways. I have been able to study and follow 148 cases, all occurring in Kansas or within a radius of a few miles of its borders. Oklahoma reported only a few cases of infantile paralysis; Missouri has four cases on record; Colorado reports none. The office of the secretary of the Nebraska board of health states that 117 cases have been reported during 1923 in that state, but no statistics