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Time Capsule: Fighting the polio epidemic

by BERL TISKUS
Reporter | February 8, 2024 12:00 AM

Ronan Pioneer, Jan. 20, 1949

Polio epidemics set all-time high appeals

When record polio epidemics hit the nation last summer, urgent appeals for physical therapists and nurses for emergency duty poured into the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis from a score of states, revealed Fred J. McConnell, 1949 March of Dimes chairman for Lake County, today.

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