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Christopher J. Rutty, "The Middle-Class Plague: Epidemic Polio and the Canadian State, 1936-37," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 13 (1996): 277-314.

Figure 2:

One of 27 "homemade" iron lungs manufactured in the basement of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, during 1937 polio epidemic. (Photo courtesy of the Hospital for Sick Children Archives, 973.33.1b)

Iron Lung, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1937

©2000 Christopher J. Rutty, Ph.D.