Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis
Health Resorts
Roosevelt, franklin d. (franklin delano), 1882-1945
Homes and haunts
Personal narratives
Health
Patients
New York Times reviewed
Biography
Just after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frightening childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded by FDR, "a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled c…
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