The Corpus Christi board of health closed all schools, churches, theaters, parks, playgrounds and swimming pools on May 12, 1946 in response to an outbreak of polio.Thirty years earlier in 1916, the Texas State Journal of Medicine repeated the orthodoxy of the day: “We are reasonably certain that the mouth and nose, and not the hands” are responsible “for the transmission of the di...
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