Polio Strikes Two-Month Old Baby--Martha Ann Murray, who at two months is the youngest Arizonian ever placed in iron lung, is watched by Nurse Martha Sumner in St. Mary's hospital when she is critically ill of polio. Her five-year-old brother, Richard Y. Murray, Jr., also is stricken with the disease but his condition is not as serious as his sister's. Their father was a polio sufferer in 1943.
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Polio Strikes Two-Month Old Baby--Martha Ann Murray, who at two months is the youngest Arizonian ever placed in iron lung, is watched by Nurse Martha Sumner in St. Mary's hospital when she is critically ill of polio. Her five-year-old brother, Richard Y. Murray, Jr., also is stricken with the disease but his condition is not as serious as his sister's. Their father was a polio sufferer in 1943.

Associated Press · [ca. September 1952]

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