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D10217-2
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- 1940-09-09 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Birthday girl Katherine Ann Clinton fingers the ribbon on her new doll. She is celebrating her third birthday at a party in the Polio Ward of the Pierce County Hospital. She has a splint on one arm. This was a standard treatment for polio, to immobilize the paralyzed limbs. As the poliomyelitis virus stalked the youth of Tacoma, parents kept their children away from crowds. Swimming pools and freshwater lakes were closed for swimming, as the virus could live in both dirt and water. (T. Times 9/10/1940, pg. 3)
Poliomyelitis--Tacoma; Sick children; Pierce County Hospital (Tacoma); Clinton, Katherine Ann;