Memories of Polio & Public Health
Five oral history participants did not have polio themselves, but grew up amid the fear of polio: Ruth, Andrew Harris, Edie Lewis, H.V. Nelles, and Marguerite Young.
Click on their stories to learn about the scourge of childhood illnesses in an era before socialized medicine, their comparisons of infectious disease to wartime hardships, Ontario's public health measures against polio, and participation as subject or nurse in vaccine programs.
Brantford Expositor, 5 August 1978.