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Help for Polio Patients
Help for Polio Patients

Help for Polio Patients

Date10/31/1995
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Original Toronto Star caption: Help for Polio Patients: West Park Hospital clinic co-ordinator Wendy Malisani watches as Dr. Jose Jimenez performs nerve tests on a patient.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026687F
The patient who's stayed the longest in Riverdale Hospital is David Anderson, admitted in 1956 with polio and needing an iron lung, which he still sle(...)
The patient who's stayed the longest in Riverdale Hospital is David Anderson, admitted in 1956 with polio and needing an iron lung, which he still sle(...)
5/9/1974
Ex-caretaker with Toronto Board of Education, Howard Noble got polio at 14
Ex-caretaker with Toronto Board of Education, Howard Noble got polio at 14
8/28/1987
More than thousand people of all ages line up for polio vaccine shots outside an emergency immunization clinic set up yesterday in Norwich. Tremendous(...)
More than thousand people of all ages line up for polio vaccine shots outside an emergency immunization clinic set up yesterday in Norwich. Tremendous(...)
8/3/1978
Dorothy Aldridge - DOT as she's known to ham operators - won't slow down - even for polio
Dorothy Aldridge - DOT as she's known to ham operators - won't slow down - even for polio
7/17/1979
Survivor of the great polio epidemic of 1937, Earl Eden, above, was 6 when he got the disease (at right in small picture), about the age of grandson he shows quarantine sign to
Survivor of the great polio epidemic of 1937, Earl Eden, above, was 6 when he got the disease (at right in small picture), about the age of grandson he shows quarantine sign to
9/1/1987
Delphine Schofield, left, was in final year of nursing when she caught polio and was not allowed to return to the profession on recovery
Delphine Schofield, left, was in final year of nursing when she caught polio and was not allowed to return to the profession on recovery
8/29/1987
Daddy . . . and for Toronto, Busiest Spot in Toronto yesterday was the Salk depot in a corridor at city hall. Yesterday at noon 978 persons received a(...)
Daddy . . . and for Toronto, Busiest Spot in Toronto yesterday was the Salk depot in a corridor at city hall. Yesterday at noon 978 persons received a(...)
9/29/1958
Dr. Guy Prouix, left, helps a group of amnesia patients improve their memories
Dr. Guy Prouix, left, helps a group of amnesia patients improve their memories
3/16/1993
Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
8/25/1987
Hospital reunion: A nurse wheels heart transplant patient Ted Younger by the buffet table as he and five other transplant patients celebrated at a reunion yesterday
Hospital reunion: A nurse wheels heart transplant patient Ted Younger by the buffet table as he and five other transplant patients celebrated at a reunion yesterday
3/7/1986
Hyperbaric chamber simulates underwater air-pressure so doctors can treat divers who suffer from the bends -- too rapid decompression. Patients with o(...)
Hyperbaric chamber simulates underwater air-pressure so doctors can treat divers who suffer from the bends -- too rapid decompression. Patients with o(...)
7/11/1975
At the bar: Arthritic patients Dorothy Gillespie, front, and Mary Cringan perform aquatic exercises at Mississauga's Sheridan Villa Pool
At the bar: Arthritic patients Dorothy Gillespie, front, and Mary Cringan perform aquatic exercises at Mississauga's Sheridan Villa Pool
1/8/1991