The Great Scourge
The Great Scourge
The Tasmanian Infantile Paralysis Epidemic of 1937-38
by
Anne Killalea
Hobart, 1996
The story of the 1937-38 outbreak of poliomyelitis in Tasmania, when the state suffered the largest per capita outbreak of the disease in the western world. Much of the book is based on the poignant stories of survivors of the outbreak.
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