1921
Rockefeller
Foundation
endows a second and third school of public health in the U.S.- Harvard
University and the University of Michigan -and launches an ambitious plan
to circle the globe with schools. Spending more than $25 million, RF helps
establish schools in Prague, Warsaw, London, Toronto, Copenhagen, Budapest,
Oslo, Belgrade, Zagreb, Madrid, Cluj (Romania), Ankara, Sofia, Rome, Tokyo,
Athens, Bucharest, Stockholm, Calcutta, Manila, and SÜo Paulo.
Infantile
paralysis or poliomyelitis ("polio") is widespread in the summer
of 1921. Franklin Roosevelt contracts the disease--his legs are completely
and permanently paralyzed.
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