Trevelyan, Barry; Smallman-Raynor, Matthew; Cliff, Andrew D. - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 168 (2005) 4, pp. 701-722
The great epidemic of poliomyelitis which swept New York City and surrounding territory in the summer of 1916 eclipsed all previous global experience of the disease. We draw on epidemiological information that is included in the seminal US "Public Health Bulletin" 91, 'Epidemiologic studies of...