Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noon to Night. After the first wild clamor for polio vaccine when it was released two years ago, few seemed to care when, last summer, unused supplies of the vaccine started to pile up. Most doctors did little to persuade adults that they should get the same shots as their children, injected the vaccine in their offices at standard fees. The turning point came in January, when the American Medical Association - which had been notably unenthusiastic about free or cut-rate inoculations - finally urged its members to develop mass-inoculation programs...
...Seattle it was soon decided that the only way to set up a successful program -backed by newspapers, radio and TV-was to make it free. To foot the bills the city's United Good Neighbors' Polio Trust Fund donated $185,000, the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gave $30,000, and the county public health department agreed to pay for all vaccine used for persons under 20. Hoping to needle some 300,000 people in two weeks, the King County (Seattle) Medical Society rounded up 1,000 of its 1,200 members, plus...
...only been called an s.o.b. once." Most medical groups in other cities were either slicing or eliminating vaccination fees. Clinics in and around Pittsburgh have shot some 170,000 people under 20 in the past month. Houston hopes to inoculate 200,000 during a twelve-hour polio blitz on St. Patrick...
...scattered around the nation, a few medical societies still huffily rejected free and cut-rate inoculations. In some cities only people willing to classify themselves as "indigent" could get free shots. Said one Ohio county health commissioner: "If a polio epidemic comes this summer, any doctor driving his car down the street is going to hear from the people, rotten tomatoes and all." For whatever reason, despite the vaccination campaign, nearly half of the nation's estimated 109 million people under 40 have so far received no polio shots, and only 10% have received all three...
...from areas that go in for snake rites, had burned down schoolhouses and horsewhipped the teachers." Most refuse to send their children to school. Even more alarming to authorities, said Reporter Browning, is the parents' "rebellious resistance" to immunization shots and other elementary health measures. Chicago's polio outbreak last year was "centered in Southern white migrant areas." Said Miss Browning: "They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need...