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Kids at the Wilson Home for crippled children, 1943

Kids at the Wilson Home for crippled children, 1943

Children lying in their beds in the solarium at the Wilson Home for crippled children in Takapuna, Auckland, 1943.

The crippling disease Paralytic Poliomyelitis (Polio) affected hundreds of children before it was virtually eliminated by a mass vaccination campaign in 1962. It wasn't until 2000 that New Zealand was officially declared Polio free.

Alexander Turnbull Library,
Photographer: John Pascoe Reference: 1/4-000643-F
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