Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Young Polio Patients Flown to Treatment Center--Four young polio patients from San Angelo, Tex., are unloaded from and Air Force plane at San Marcos Air Force Base yesterday. They then were taken by ambulance to the Gonzales, Tex., Warm Springs Foundation for treatment. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis recently described San Angelo as the city hardest hit with polio. The Gonzales center is increasing its bed capacity from 110 to 130 beds to care for polio victims.
Young Polio Patients Flown to Treatment Center--Four young polio patients from San Angelo, Tex., are unloaded from and Air Force plane at San Marcos Air Force Base yesterday. They then were taken by ambulance to the Gonzales, Tex., Warm Springs Foundation for treatment. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis recently described San Angelo as the city hardest hit with polio. The Gonzales center is increasing its bed capacity from 110 to 130 beds to care for polio victims.
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Young Polio Patients Flown to Treatment Center--Four young polio patients from San Angelo, Tex., are unloaded from and Air Force plane at San Marcos Air Force Base yesterday. They then were taken by ambulance to the Gonzales, Tex., Warm Springs Foundation for treatment. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis recently described San Angelo as the city hardest hit with polio. The Gonzales center is increasing its bed capacity from 110 to 130 beds to care for polio victims.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1949]

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