Christopher J. Rutty, "The Middle-Class Plague: Epidemic Polio and the Canadian State, 1936-37," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History13 (1996): 277-314

Sources: Meeting, Dominion Council of Health, October 15-16, 1937, NAC, Microfilm, C9815 (pre 1930 figures); Canada, Dominion Bureau of Statistics: Poliomyelitis Trends, 1956 through 1960 (Ottawa: 1957-1961) (1931-1960 figures); Annual Reports of Notifiable Diseases, 1961-62 (Ottawa:1962-63).
 
 

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