EPIDEMIC INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Abstract

During the summer of 1907 an epidemic of infantile paralysis occurred in New York City and its vicinity. The number of cases (probably over 2,000) was so many, the extent of the disease in the city and along Long Island Sound into Connecticut and up the Hudson River as far as Ossining was so rapid, the severity of the cases was so intense and deaths from the disease so frequent, that the epidemic excited a great amount of interest both among the laity and the profession. It seems wise, therefore, to put on record some special account of this epidemic, to call attention to particular clinical features that were presented, to trace the course of the cases as far as possible, and also to bring together an account of other epidemics that have occurred in the past, inasmuch as a large number of records have now accumulated concerning the prevalence