Jenny: 'We lived in constant fear' – coping as a nursing student during the polio epidemic

It was 1953 and I was a second-year nursing student when I was suddenly sent to do a three-month stint at the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, Montreal’s isolation hospital. Normally, students rotated to specialty clinical areas during their final year only, but this was the time of the last great poliomyelitis (polio) epidemic. Read More