At this time my father and mother used to sit in a friendly pub with a telephone in Youghal, ringing up St Finbarr’s three or four times a day to ask about Andrew and myself.
Please For the first time there were polio epidemics and they happened in the richer countries like the US, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. The number admitted to hospital suspected of having polio was slightly larger. By the middle of July the number of children entering the fever hospital in Cork had risen to four a day.
They were usually accompanied by subheadlines claiming that there was “No occasion for for undue alarm” and “Outbreak a mild one”. Polio, once the most feared of diseases, is about to be eradicated. The fear and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic may feel new to many of us. We reached Cork docks late in the morning and mountains of luggage were packed into a van. An ancient Egyptian stele portraying a young man with a withered leg leaning on a stick shows that it may have existed some 3,500 years ago. “A week after this incident, I had my raise.”Toronto technicians work with the anti-polio vaccine in 1955. Children moved easily from house to house.
They thought that if Andrew and I did not take the trap or gig into Youghal, and kept away from the beaches, we would be all right.On the boat from Wales to Cork my father had several conversations with other passengers, who expressed, he later recalled,”the sort of apprehensions you encountered among people travelling to London from the country during the bombing”. I greeted his arrival with relief. “You got to know a lot of people, and you learned a lot, too.
{{#replies}} In the US, Dr Jonas Salk had carried out successful trials of a new vaccine in 1954. Most of the time I could only crawl, but my arms were unaffected so I painted all the skirting boards in my nursery. News about the outbreak was sparse, but the risk seemed small. It is an old disease. For food we got a thin, watery mince with hard, boiled potatoes. They had lost all hope - they were that frightened.”Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? I was miserably unhappy. I rode around on an elderly white donkey called Jacky. For the first time reports of an epidemic begin to appear in the local press. This sounds reassuring, but understates the strain on relatives. He waited for him at Cork station. Maureen O’Sullivan, the Red Cross nurse who had arranged physical training for victims in the late Fifties, remembers that “at the sight of my ambulance in their street people would think that the polio was back. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)Herbert never got sick in the hospital, and, to this day, he’s in good health. they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. It was difficult to take on board the fact that the greatest danger was lack of immunity rather than meeting somebody who carried the disease. Claud and Patricia brought me toys, but there was an air of violence in the ward and the toys were usually broken within a few days.I was there for six months. My father wrote a moving chapter about his two sons getting the disease in the third volume of his autobiography View From The West (1961). Please They had to wait for days to find out if their child was paralysed and months to know about the extent of the disability. By then polio was being rapidly eradicated. The woman, he learned, worked with paralyzed polio patients in the local hospital.
Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. After three weeks at St Finbarr’s I was sent to an orthopaedic hospital at Gurranebraher, on a hill overlooking Cork. We hired a car to go to Youghal, but first we wanted to do some shopping in St Patrick’s Street in the centre of Cork. They needed to do the limited amount they could for the victims of polio - and whatever the failings of Gurranebraher, treatment at St Finbarr’s was as good as anywhere in the world.
There was a walled garden and four fields, about 35 acres in all. Alderman Casey, the Lord Mayor of Cork, said the report was beneath contempt, adding, “Press publicity, which is ill-advised and ill-informed, has done immeasurable damage to the traders of the city.” An irate councillor played the patriotic card, saying British papers “were not slow to publish anything which tended to discredit the Irish people”.
In the month after we returned to Ireland, he had to return to London several times to see Malcolm Muggeridge and Punch, hoping, he wrote later “to shore, and even perhaps establish on sound foundations, our always tottering financial structure”.
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