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Item
Title
D10217-12
Date(s)
- 1940-09 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Iron lung polio patient at the Pierce County Hospital. In the summer of 1940, poliomyelitis stalked the young people of Tacoma. Its targets were children and young adults. By September of 1940, eleven patients remained in Pierce County Hospital in iron lungs, full time or part-time.
Poliomyelitis--Tacoma; Sick children; Pierce County Hospital (Tacoma); Iron lungs;