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Polio - virtually unheard of today in the Central West - was on the rise in 1950, including cases discovered at Parkes Migrant Centre. Source: 835 Polio Cases This Year (1951, April 5). Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved November 28, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195305328

Polio – virtually unheard of today in the Central West – was on the rise in 1950, including cases discovered at Parkes Migrant Centre. Source: 835 Polio Cases This Year (1951, April 5). Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved November 28, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195305328

Polio – virtually unheard of today in the Central West – was on the rise in 1950, including cases discovered at Parkes Migrant Centre. Source: 835 Polio Cases This Year (1951, April 5). Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved November 28, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195305328

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