Poliomyelitis — A Persistent Problem

The October 21 and October 28, 1972, issues of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report1,2 (Center for Disease Control, United States Public Health Service) featured a startling news item: an epidemic of poliomyelitis in a community in the United States. The area involved was not a socially, economically and medically deprived community but rather a private school in Greenwich, Connecticut, an affluent city most of whose residents are white and corporate executives, professionals and white-collar workers. Between September 29 and October 17, 1972, in nine male students between the ages of 12 and 18 years, and in two females, seven and . . .