Polio Treatment (1951)
Unissued, unused footage dates and locations may be unclear, unknown. Polio, Infantile Paralysis treatment at Queen Mary s Hospital for Children at Carshalton in Surrey (some of this footage was probably used in Summing Up No 17). Various shots show nurses helping young children to walk along in a pool. The children have rubber rings around their waists and hold onto ropes strung along the bath. Another boy sits on a couch beside the pool and has his legs massaged by a nurse. A boy with a calliper on his leg is lowered into the pool and walks slowly along. A nurse moves a little girl s legs about in the water. A boy lies back in the water while a nurse rests his leg on a rubber ring. Several shots of a little girl with a calliper on her leg walks along inside a walking frame on wheels. Small child lies on a hospital bed, crying. Doctor and nurse examine the child s legs and feet and make notes. The girl s legs appear to be limp and lifeless. M, S of statue of US President Franklin D Ro
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