September 1916 was finally bringing cooler weather to the East Coast. It was hoped by many that this change would bring an end to the epidemic of infantile paralysis, now known as polio, that had started in Brooklyn and spread outward to become the worst outbreak in U.S. history. Rigid quarantines had done little to stop the advance of the disease, and medical science still hadn’t discovered where it came from or how to cure it.
The Asbury Park Press of Sept. 15 stated, “The steady dwindling of the number of infantile paralysis cases reported…
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