EPIDEMIC ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS IN NORWAY IN THE YEARS 1903 TO 1906.RESULTS OF ANATOMIC INVESTIGATION OF NINETEEN CASES OF ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS AND KINDRED CONDITIONS.

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Abstract
There are frequent accounts in medical literature of epidemics of acute cerebrospinal meningitis. Much more rarely epidemics of acute poliomyelitis have been observed. A few such epidemics have been described, however, and apparently they occur with relative frequency in North America and the Scandinavian countries. It will be remembered that from June to August, 1894, there was an epidemic in the Otter Creek Valley in Vermont of 150 or 160 cases, which probably, at least largely, were cases of acute poliomyelitis.1A similar epidemic occurred in New York in 18992with about 30 cases, and a third one in 1902 has been briefly described by Painter.3It involved 38 cases of acute poliomyelitis and a few cases of acute cerebrospinal meningitis. Unfortunately, there are no records of anatomic examination from these epidemics, so one can not feel certain that there were not also cases of other diseases,

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