Not just the rows and rows of baby headstones, but the necessity of state care for people who technically survived those diseases but were damaged. Sequelae like encephalitis are often forgotten now.

Yup. My mother-in-law’s sister took thirty-two years to die from measles. Encephalitis made her bedridden from childhood until her death. Measles is truly awful.

Wards full of folks in iron-lungs...