The State Department of Public Health is hereby authorized to initiate and organize a state-wide program supplementing a program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and administer vaccine designed to immunize children against that disease. Said Department is authorized to cooperate further with the authorities of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and to make such rules and regulations in connection therewith as will assure the administration of vaccine to the greatest possible number of children within the age group most susceptible to the disease and within the limits of the funds made available for that purpose under the provisions of this act.¹