Epidemic Poliomyelitis During 1956 in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois1

Nathaxson, Neal; Thrupp, Lauri; Hall, Wm. Jackson; Langmuir, Alexander D.; Cornell, Richard G.; Forester, Helen; Church, Ruth E.; Hall, J. B.; Htldebhand, Minna; Shaughnessy, Howard J.; Morrissey, Richard A.

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“…In the 1956 Chicago epidemic attack rates for paralytic poliomyelitis among Negroes were almost eight times those in whites (7,8). During 1957, the only large city with any concentration of poliomyelitis was Washington, D.C., where the paralytic attack rate in nonwhites was four times as high as in whites.…”

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Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1957

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Brody³

1959

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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Section: Racialmentioning

confidence: 99%