Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
City SOS Drive Praised by Surgeon General |
Scope & Content |
Copy of an article from the Hopwood Polio Scrapbook owned by the daughter of Cleveland physician Dr. Howard H. Hopwood, containing newspaper articles about the Sabin Oral Sundays (SOS) polio vaccination program. This article, published in July 1962, describes the outcome of the SOS oral vaccination program, which concluded in Cuyahoga County on July 29, 1962. The program involved distributing three vaccinations, which each consisted of three drops of a vaccine containing one type of poliomyelitis virus on a sugar cube, over six Sundays at various locations throughout Cuyahoga County. In this article, Dr. Luther L. Terry, then Surgeon General, congratulates the county for the successful program, during which more than ninety percent of the county's residents were vaccinated. |
Collection |
Polio Collection |
Catalog Number |
2017.018.004 |
Lexicon category |
Archives |
Lexicon sub-category |
Ephemera |
Object Name |
Newspaper article |
Search Terms |
cleveland academy of medicine cuyahoga county greater cleveland immunization immunizations inoculation inoculations oral vaccination oral vaccinations oral vaccine oral vaccines polio polio virus poliomyelitis public health sabin sabin oral poliovaccine sabin oral sundays sos type i polio type i poliomyelitis type ii polio type ii poliomyelitis type iii polio type iii poliomyelitis vaccination vaccinations vaccine vaccines |
People |
Terry, Luther L. Crawford, Henry Alexander |