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Polio Survey
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James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and Dr. F.F. Bowman, city health officer, are compiling a record of all infantile paralysis victims in the area in order to provide better services for them. Dane County has had 96 cases of polio since 1930.
August 9, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane Co. Chapter
March 8, 1950
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane County Chapter retiring officers Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, March of Dimes Chairman, and James R. Law, Dane County Chapter Chairman of National F...
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
February 19, 1948
Dr. Clair Turner, Assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown at the left as he conferred in Madison with a group of three Wisconsin health leaders.
Polio Short Course
June 29, 1948
Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School and the Wisconsin county chapters of the ...
Dr. F.F. Bowman
May 18, 1944
Dr. F.F. Bowman, Madison health officer for the past sixteen years.
"Fight Infantile Paralysis" Display
March 19, 1945
A women seated at a desk with a display board titled "Fight Infantile Paralysis".
Polio Kickoff Banquet
December 9, 1953
Mrs. Stanley Beck, wife of a University of Wisconsin professor stricken with polio, talking with Marjorie Hagan, the city chairman of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Polio Ki...
