For many New Jersey citizens, the summer of 1916 was remembered as one of fear, dread and panic. Shark attacks on its beaches and a terrorist attack at Black Tom, in Jersey City, are the most mentioned, but the worst and most devastating came in the form of the silent killer polio.

Today, thanks to a vaccine, the disease is almost unheard of, but in 1916 it was known as Infantile Paralysis and thought by many to be carried by stable flies.