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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(...)

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(...)

Date5/9/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 sleeps in. At one time, there were 40 iron lungs there but now, since development of polio vaccine, Anderson is a rarity. Changes in the hospital have been equally dramatic, but Anderson still has in room a portrait of his daughter Kathleen at age of 10. [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026686F
Help for Polio Patients
Help for Polio Patients
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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
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Dorothy Aldridge - DOT as she's known to ham operators - won't slow down - even for polio
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8/28/1987
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Friend indeed: Gary Wilcox, 34, and stroke patient Noel Keenan, 54, still meet regularly, though Keenan has moved to Riverdale Hospital
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Young patient gets an outing, Four-year-old Joann Armsworthy, who's in Princess Margaret Hospital for treatment, gets a ride through Allan Gardens yes(...)
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Patient makes history, Dr. Rudy Falk, head of cancer surgery at Toronto General Hospital, chats with Vern Corriveau of Toronto who's undergoing heat-d(...)
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Lung transplant survivors, Dr. Joel Cooper (rear), head of the transplant team at Toronto General and Mount Sinai hospitals, introduces four patients (...)
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