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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(...)

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(...)

Date9/29/1958
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 anti-polio shots. Running in its second week at city hall, the clinic is being held from 12 noon to 2 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m. to give all a chance to get their free innoculation
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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
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
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
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
Help for Polio Patients
Help for Polio Patients
10/31/1995
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
Jack Tootill holds a nuclear-powered heart pacer like the one, Canada's first, he received in an operation yesterday at Toronto General Hospital. It'll last 10 years
Jack Tootill holds a nuclear-powered heart pacer like the one, Canada's first, he received in an operation yesterday at Toronto General Hospital. It'll last 10 years
10/9/1973
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
8/28/1968
On road to health: Terry Buckton, 27, and Jean Patey, 28, who each received a new heart and two new lungs at Toronto General Hospital this summer, compared notes at hospital yesterday
On road to health: Terry Buckton, 27, and Jean Patey, 28, who each received a new heart and two new lungs at Toronto General Hospital this summer, compared notes at hospital yesterday
9/19/1985
Toronto general hospital lung transplant patients who gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday show their joy in living. Don Stein, who received a(...)
Toronto general hospital lung transplant patients who gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday show their joy in living. Don Stein, who received a(...)
5/4/1987
Ms Persons of the year: Left, Mary Strange and David Sheppard, right, Helen Henderson and Kostas Kariotis
Ms Persons of the year: Left, Mary Strange and David Sheppard, right, Helen Henderson and Kostas Kariotis
5/10/1990