It dropped dramatically in the period from 1954-- this is these filled black bars refer to this axis, polio cases per 100,000 population dropped down to only three or four cases by 1956.

患病率在一九五四年后的,一段时间里急剧下降,该坐标轴上的这些黑色柱形图表明,到一九五六年,小儿麻痹症的发病率,已经降低至每十万人中仅三到四人发病

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