Australian Polio Register – Total Australian Polio Infections

The Australian Polio Register currently shows that 1850 people contracted polio in Australia during the 20th century epidemics. This is the individual State/Territory breakdown:

New South Wales
605
(33%)
Queensland
193
(10%)
South Australia
271
(15%)
Tasmania
115
(6%)
Victoria
496
(27%)
Western Australia
161
(9%)
Australian Capital Territory
7
(0%)
Northern Territory
1
(0%)
Not Known
2
(0%)

On the map below you can see where the polio cases occurred across the whole of Australia, as recorded to date on the Australian Polio Register. (To see the individual State/Territory breakdowns, click here.)

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Click Show/Hide to reveal/hide a list of locations (from the list, click View on Map for map location) Show

To see more detail you can move the map and center it on different states or towns by clicking and dragging the map with your mouse, and then zoom in and out (by using the mouse’s scroll wheel or by clicking on the zoom ladder at the left of the map).

Click on a red map marker to reveal in what years polio was contracted in that location. Note that the map markers point to the general locality only; they should not be interpreted as pointing to specific streets, for example.

For regions with many different polio locations, the red map markers are clustered together to reduce clutter on the map, with new regional clusters created as the map zoom level changes. Click on a regional cluster to zoom in and reveal the individual red map markers.

   
Red map markers indicate in what years polio was contracted in that location (the number on the marker gives the total number of polio cases currently recorded for the location).
Blue clusters indicate there are between 2 and 9 different polio locations in that region, with the number on the cluster giving the number of locations (zoom in to reveal the red map markers showing the number of polio cases currently recorded per location).
Yellow clusters indicate there are between 10 and 99 different polio locations in that region, with the number on the cluster giving the number of locations (zoom in to reveal the red map markers showing the number of polio cases currently recorded per location).
Red clusters indicate there are between 100 and 999 different polio locations in that region, with the number on the cluster giving the number of locations (zoom in to reveal the red map markers showing the number of polio cases currently recorded per location).

Return to  Australian Polio Register – Polio Contracted in Australia  

Go to  Australian Polio Register – Polio Contracted Overseas  

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