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Ngā Taonga Sound Archives - Home schooling and the 1940s polio epidemics

This week memories of the polio epidemic of 1948 and how kids were educated at home then by Correspondence School 

1948 cartoon depicting a mother doing housework while supervising children's schooling from home. [Auckland Star newspaper, courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

Titahi Bay boy receiving the polio vaccine, 1958 [Evening Post newspaper, courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

Northern Advocate newspaper headlines 27 Jan 1948 [courtesy Papers Past]

Nurse with a child in an iron lung [via Wikimedia Commons]

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