Tag: polio
This Week in Chester History…
In 1957, Patricia Cross of Pleasant Hill Road became Morris County’s first polio patient of the year. She previously had received two Salk anti-polio vaccine shots, but was diagnosed with paralytic polio at Morristown Memorial Hospital. In 1956, by this time last year, the county already had three cases. Source: The Mendham-Chester Tribune.
This Week in Chester History…
In 1958, Mrs. Cynthia Franklin was appointed Chester Community Chairwoman of the polio campaign of the March of Dimes. Polio, birth defects, and arthritis were top among the needs listed by the Morris County March of Dimes Campaign Director Howard Keast. Source: Observer-Tribune
