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ABC National ‘Shooting the Past’ – The Sunshine Cure

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Clare Wright looks deeper into a photograph of a line of small boys lying in hospital beds, staring balefully at the camera, to uncover the forgotten scourge of polio — a disease which ravaged Australia in the first half of the 20th century.


From Shooting the past – Radio National
Image: Frankston Children’s Hospital, Mt Eliza, Victoria (Courtesy: State Library of Victoria)

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