Polio Demonstrations

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Leona Baumgartner and an unnamed doctor describe the polio vaccine trials that will take place in New York in the coming months. The vaccine will be tested on public school students from the first three grades in 6 areas in New York City: the Lower East Side, the Tremont area in the Bronx, In the Gravesend neighborhood in Brooklyn, In Flushing and Corona, Queens, and in all of Staten Island.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150670
Municipal archives id: LT2792

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