Series of shots of newspaper headlines following the polio epidemic. Stylized shot of a woman working at a phone switchboard. A doctor tends to a sick child with an ice pack and stethoscope as the boys worried mother looks on. Montage of shots illustrating the panic over polio. Shots include: polio information door bill, exteriors of tenements, packing of bags, pedestrians crowd around a streetcar, newspapers, people buying train tickets. Shots of feet walking, some with crutches or leg braces, some in wheel chairs. Shots of laboratory equipment and a scientist working with glassware and microscopes.