ROOSEVELT
SCHOOL FOR
HANDICAP
CHILDREN
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About Us
PADRES
We are a grass roots Parent Advocacy
group that was founded to address the
under-representation and inequity in
the Pasadena public education system
against the Special Education and
Underprivileged communities of
Pasadena, with a special focus on the
most vulnerable walking families of all
ethnicities from the North west.
All of the founding member of the
PADRES group are former parents of
Roosevelt Elementary Students..
Roosevelt School
for Handicap Children
Historic Context Timeline
Design, A Thriving Freeway 210
The Polio FDR 1938
Construction All-Inclusive Eminent
Pandemic Polio-War Domain vs
and Grand Educational
1930 to EO 9066 Roosevelt
Re-Opening Setting
1955 1942-1946 1960's
1953 1953-2019
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The 1934 Epidemic of Poliomyelitis
in Southern California*
GEORGE M. STEVENS, M.D., F.A.P.H.A.
First Assistant Health Officer and Epidemiologist, Department of Health, Los Angeles, Calif
considered baffling and
A WAYs
puzzling, first known as sporadic
disease and then, as the years went by,
growing increasingly epidemic, polio- the county outside. myelitis always has been protean in
nature, and in this 1934 epidemic in
Southern California, more than ever has
the fact been demonstrated that disease presented almost a straight line from and epidemics, like other affairs in this the Northeastern to the Southwestern world, undergo constant change.
Never before in any epidemic have directly to the west of Belvedere into there been so many institutional cases; the very center of the city and the never so many familial cases; never so Bunker Hill district. many doctors, nurses and other hospital The peak of the wave was reached in attendants who have contracted the dis- the week ending June 9, with 220 cases:
ease; never an epidemic of similar pro- June 16 showed 199 cases; June 23, 204 portions with so low a death rate, with cases; and June 30, 209 cases. There so many of the spinal type, so many was a rapid rise from May 5 to the peak, with only paresis, or neuritis, so many then 3 weeks at an almost stationary of the straggling or recurrent variety, so high, since when there has been a many abortive, so few encephalitic; gradual decline.
never before an epidemic where 80 per The total number of cases, city and cent of the cases were hospitalized, more county, to September 3, 1934, was 1,792, than half of them in the early systemic with 25 deaths; cases in city, 1,112, phase. with 15 deaths; cases in county, 680,
November and December, 1933, and with 10 deaths; death rate, city, 1.16 January, 1934, we noticed that we were per 100,000; county, 0.98; total city getting about twice the normal sporadic and county, 1.08; incidence of cases, 6 or 8 monthly in- rate 73.3 per 100,000; mortality rate stead of the usual 2 or 4. 1.39 per cent. The Children's In the last week of April, 1934, 9
cases occurred, and by the middle of
May we found that we were on an up-
* Read before the Health Officers Section of the
American Public Health Association Sixty- doctors
COC Group,
Annual Meeting in Pasadena, Calif., September
3, 1934. Orthopoedic Hospital, 1 nurse.
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Victims of infantile paralysis (polio) receiving treatment. Left patient - oxygen tent, right patient - Iron Lung, circa 1938.
"Nothing is closer to my heart
than the health of our boys
and girls, and young men
and young womien.."
Fight Infantile Paralysis
Join the MARCH OF DIMES
WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND AND FOURTH ARMY WARTIME CIVIL CONTROL ADMINISTRATION Presidio of San Francisco, California
April 1, 1942
INSTRUCTIONS
TO ALL PERSONS OF
JAPANESE
ANCESTRY
All that portion of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, lying generally west of the north-south Living in the Following Area:
to San Francisco Bay. of the cast-west line established by California Street, to the intensectionef Market Street, and theace on Market Street line established by Junipero Serra Boulevard, Worchester Avenue, and Nineteenth Avenue, and lying generally north noon Tuesday, April 7,1912 All Japanese persons, both alien and nor-alien, will be evacuated from the above designated area by 1200o clock 1942, without obtaining special permission from the Provost Marshal at the Civil Control Station located at: No Japanese person will be permitted to enter or leave the above deseribed area after 8:00 a in, Thuralay, Apeil2 1701 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California
ing ways: The Civil Control Station is equipped to assist the Japancse population affected by this evacuation in the follon-
1. Give advice and instructions on the evacuation.
roperty inclining: real estate, business and professional equipment, buiklings, bon chold poods, boats, automobiles 2. Provide services with respect to the management, leasing, sale, Morage or other disTrition of most kimile of Provide temporary residence elsewlere for all Japanese in family grous.
3. Transmort person- aul a finited amont of rulingand equiet to their me maiden, as period belon The Following Instructions Must Be Observed:
1. A responsible member of each family, preferably the head of the family, or the person in whose name mod • he property is hell, and cach individual living alone, will report to the Gril Control Station to recite funher in structions. This must be done between 000 a. in. and 5:00 p.m., Thursday, April 2, 1912, or letseen 1300 a m. and 5:00 p. m., Friday, April3, 1912.
Hundreds of millions of sick and crippled people were in need of medical care after the last world war. This polio- stricken Japanese boy is one of many who have benefited from rehabilitation services set up with WHO and UNICEF help.
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