Record #:

43219

Author(s):

Eller, Robert

Abstract:

In the summer of 1944, the Emergency Infantile Paralysis Hospital or what was better known as the Hickory Emergency Infantile Polio Hospital was established in Hickory to treat an outbreak of infantile paralysis (polio).

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 61 Issue 1, Fall 2021, p28-31

Subject(s):

Polio (infantile paralysis); Hickory Emergency Polio Hospital (1944); Catawba County--Polio