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This paper considers how Bj\u00f8rn Ibsen's initial approach to treatment during the epidemic was successful, as well as how it could have failed; the roles played by ventilatory failure vs. gross neurologic destruction in causing deaths; and compilations from publications of statistics concerning mortality of the epidemic.<\/jats:p><jats:p>The Blegdam Hospital concept of \u2018life\u2010threatening poliomyelitis\u2019 is revisited, along with its division into six anatomico\u2010clinical categories for the 345 patients so classified. Attention is drawn to the severity of assorted cerebral lesions demonstrated in 114 of the 115 autopsies conducted from the 144 fatal cases. Despite an overall mortality rate of 41.6% among the entire epidemic's sickest patients, a lowest mortality rate of 11% in the last 18 of such patients is identified. Note is made of the difficulty in reconciling various sources for certain features \u2013 for which the 1956 book on the epidemic, edited by H.C.A. 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