Why The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

New York, New York: National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1939. Very good. Toned.. An informational booklet on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, including a brief overview of the organization's mission and a full listing of trustees and committee members. Founded in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor, it eventually became the well-known organization "March of Dimes". This booklet offers good insight into the terror that gripped many parents, even at this early stage of the disease's history: "The most skillful propaganda has failed to remove infantile paralysis from its top rank as terrifier of the people. The human insight of fathers and mothers looks through the reassuringly low sickness and death rates displayed to them by our public healthmen" (p. 4). Notably, this was published before the polio vaccine was developed. Single vol. (6" by 4.5"), pp. 16, in original printed self wrps.