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The Polio Years
The 1916 and 1949–52 epidemics in dated figures, the wards they filled, and the vaccines that ended them.
All 6 pieces in The Polio Years
- The Polio YearsNew York, Summer 1916: The First Mass EpidemicWhat the Numbers Said
- The Polio YearsThe Pool at Warm Springs and What It BecameThe Water Before the Foundation
- The Polio Years57,600 Reported Cases: The 1952 Season in FiguresThe Numbers That Landed on Administrators' Desks
- The Polio YearsTwo Vaccines, Six Years ApartFrom Field Trial to Empty Ward
- The Polio YearsRancho Los Amigos and the Respiratory WardThe Building and Its Machines
- The Polio YearsMary McMillan and the Reconstruction Aides, 1918From the Wards to the Association