POLIO SWEEPING UNITED STATES AND WORSE FEARED
(Rec. 10 5) NEW YORK, Aug. 2. An infantile paralysis epidemic is sweeping the United States. It has resulted in at leasteight thousand cases this year up to July 31. With August and September—normally months of the heaviest incidence—still to come, it is feared tliat 1949 may Drove theh worst poliomyletis year in United States history. A record was set in 1916, when about thirty' thousand cases were reported. T he second worst year was 1948 with 27,680 cases. Insurance brokers have been swamped with applications for new low cost polio in■:e Some towns have banned public meetings, including funerals Gthe-rs have forbidden the serving of drinks over bars. Others have closed all the beaches-
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Grey River Argus, 3 August 1949, Page 4
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