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Polio in Iowa

Web sites with information about polio in Iowa

  • Countdown to a Polio Vaccine. An article by Mike Kilen in the Sunday, January 28, 2007, Des Moines Register, on polio in Iowa.
  • University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. Medical Museum.
    The Polio Years at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
    The Polio Years follows the article about the Red Cross. The polio article includes information about polio treatment at the University of Iowa hospitals, the story of one polio patient, statistics of polio cases in Iowa from 1945 through 1970, and information about the iron lung.

Periodical articles on polio in Iowa.

Bibliography of periodical articles on polio in Iowa.
State Library Medical Librarian, Pam Rees, compiled the following lists of citations.

Arranged by date the article was published

  • McCreery, J.W. Report of an Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 16, Number 10, (April 15, 1910) pages 519-522. (Nine cases of polio in Whittemore in July, August, September 1908.)
  • Infantile Paralysis: Special Bulletin of the Iowa State Board of Health. Fifteenth Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Iowa for the Fiscal Period Ending June 30, 1910. Pages 122-134. (Pages 126-130 have information about polio in Iowa and the 1910 Mason City epidemic.)
  • Acute Poliomyelitis. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 3, (September 15, 1910) pages 148-149. (1910 epidemic in Mason City)
  • Discussion of the Epidemic of Anterior Poliomyelitis at a meeting called by the Iowa State Board of Health, and held at the House Chamber, State Capitol, August 17, 1910. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 5, (November 15, 1910) pages 236-255. (Includes information about the 1910 epidemic in Mason City.)
  • Frost, Wade H. The Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 19, Issue 5, (May 1929) pages 223-228. (Mentions 1910 Mason City epidemic).
  • Lanpher, Howard A. Poliomyelitis in Iowa in 1930. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 21, Issue 7, (July 1931) pages 346-350. The Iowa Medical Society has given permission for full text of this article to be added to the ICB Web site.
  • George, Everett M. and Harry E. Ransom. The 1939 Poliomyelitis Epidemic in the City of Des Moines. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 30, Issue 12, (December 1940) pages 584-587. The Iowa Medical Society has given permission for full text of this article to be added to the ICB Web site.
  • Hanlon, Robert C. Public Health Engineer, Polk County Health Service, Des Moines, Iowa.
    "Observed Relationship of Poliomyelitis Incidence and Environmental Sanitation in Des Moines, Iowa." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 30, Issue 12, (December 1940) pages 587-590. The Iowa Medical Society has given permission for full text of this article to be added to the ICB Web site. Click here for article.
  • Dyson, James E. The Kenny Treatment in Acute Poliomyelitis: A Report of the First Year at the Iowa Lutheran Kenny Cottages. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 33, Issue 8, (August 1943) pages 375-379. The Iowa Medical Society has given permission for full text of this article to be added to the ICB Web site.
  • Blizzard, Robert M., Floyd E. Sawyer, and Allan K. Chappell. Acute Poliomyelitis: A Study of the Patients Seen at the Raymond Bland Memorial Hospital during 1952. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 43, Issue 9, (September 1953) pages 361-369.

Citations of articles with statistics on polio in Iowa that appeared in The Journal of the Iowa Medical Society, State Department of Health Commissioner's Reports, and Annual/Biennial Reports from the Iowa State Department of Health.
Arranged by date of publication.

  • Number of poliomyelitis cases and deaths for the years 1924-1933. Twenty-Sixth Biennial Report for the Iowa State Department of Health for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1934. Page 151.
  • Bierring, Walter. State Department of Health. Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 26, Issue 12, (December 1936) pages 692-693. (Incidence in past years, diagnosis, serum therapy)
  • Bierring, Walter. State Department of Health. Prevalence of Poliomyelitis in Iowa. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 27, Issue 9, (September 1937) pages 485.
  • Bierring, Walter. State Department of Health. Poliomyelitis in Iowa: Morbidity and Morbidity Rates for the 13-Year period 1930-1942. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 33, Issue 11, (November 1943) page 517. (Iowa counties map)
  • Number of poliomyelitis cases and deaths for the years 1936-1945. Thirty-Second Biennial Report for the Iowa State Department of Health for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1946, Pages 18-19.
  • Bierring, Walter. State Department of Health. Poliomyelitis in Iowa by County of Residence - 1952. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 43, Issue 5, (May 1953) pages 198-199.
  • Zimmerer, Edmund G. Poliomyelitis and the Salk Vaccine. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 45, Issue 6, (June 1955) pages 308-310. (Has cases and death rates 1945-1954)
  • Number of poliomyelitis cases and deaths for the years 1945-1956.
    Thirty-Seventh Biennial Report for the Iowa State Department of Health for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1956. Page 51.
  • Zimmerer, Edmund G. State Department of Health. Poliomyelitis Incidence in the U.S., 1952-1956. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 47, Issue 2, (February 1957) page 101.
  • Zimmerer, Edmund G. State Department of Health. The Declining Incidence of Paralytic Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 47, Issue 11, (November 1957) page 708.

General articles on polio that appeared in Iowa medical journals between 1910 and 1957
Articles are arranged by date of publication.

  • Ryerson, Edwin W. Surgical Treatment of Infantile Paralysis. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 3, (September 15, 1910) pages 128-134.
  • Throckmorton, Tom Bentley. Infantile Palsy. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 3, (September 15, 1910) pages 135-140.
  • Acute Poliomyelitis. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 4, (October 15, 1910) pages 197-199.
  • Discussion on Poliomyelitis. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 4, (October 15, 1910) page 201.
  • Dakin, C.E. Mason City. Acute Epidemic Poliomyelitis: Symptomatology, Diagnosis and Treatment. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 5, (November 15, 1910) pages 229-235.
  • Grossman, D.S. Probable Cause of Acute Poliomyelitis. Iowa Medical Journal. Vol. 17, Issue 10, (April 15, 1911) pages 501-503.
  • Nuzum, John W. (from Chicago) The Etiology and Serum Treatment of Epidemic Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 8, Issue 7, (July 1918) pages 237-246.
  • O'Donoghue, Arch F. Diagnosis and Treatment of Infantile Paralysis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 12, Issue 4, (April 1922) pages 141-143.
  • Bierring, Walter. State Department of Health. Infantile Paralysis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 24, Issue 6, (June 1934) pages 296-297. (Causes, transmission, diagnosis, medical care)
  • Bierring, Walter. State Department of Health. Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 24, Issue 8, (August 1934) page 451. (Nine symptoms of poliomyelitis and use of serum)
  • Moore, Fred. Prevention of Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 28, Issue 8, (August 1938) pages 385-389.
  • Van Duzer, William R. The Importance of Early Treatment of Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis.
    Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 29, Issue 5, (May 1939) pages 204-206.
  • Stadler, Harold. Some Clinical Observations of Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 31, Issue 6, (June 1941) pages 242-245.
  • Elkins, Earl C. and K.G. Wakim. The Present Concept of Treatment of Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 37, Issue 8, (August 1947) pages 356-362.
  • Ghormley, Ralph K. History of Treatment of Poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 37, Issue 8, (August 1947) pages 343-350.
  • Knapp, M.E. Rehabilitation in severe poliomyelitis. Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 43, Issue 9, (September 1953) pages 369-373.

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