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Photo of a Single-child Iron Lung Respirator Single-Child Iron Lung Respirator, early 1930s

The new respirators were in great demand in Boston and throughout the United States. Polio epidemics, however, continued to bring patients to both the Children's and Infants' Hospitals. The huge demand for respirators threatened to outstrip the number of iron lung machines available.

Photo: Children's Hospital Boston Archives.

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