Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors went to work on the worst 1948 epidemic within a single county-San Diego. The city of San Diego, they point out in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin, "probably has better living conditions than any large city in the U.S." Nearby is the overcrowded, jerry-built, almost sewerless Mexican town of Tijuana. Every racial group in San Diego, including Mexican immigrants, showed about the same liability to polio (60 cases per 100,000 population). But Tijuana's rate was only one-seventh as great...