Sharon Serrott polio vaccine photograph   Save
Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection
Description: Mary Settimio, a Columbus, Ohio, district health nurse, gives young Sharon Serrott a dose of the Salk polio vaccine, ca. 1955-1957. Darline Warren (right), a nursing student at Mt. Carmel Hospital, holds Sharon in a support, as Mrs. George C. Deckman (left), president of the Columbus Federation of Women's Clubs, watches. A stamp on the photograph's reverse reads "Daniel Firestone Photographs 168 N. Third Street Columbus, 15, OHIO Capital 8-5883." Polio, a virus that causes paralysis, especially in young children, was a major public health concern in the United States and globally from the early 1900s through the 1950s. In 1952, Jonas Salk at University of Pittsburgh developed the first effective polio vaccine, which was given to hundreds of thousands of children across the country. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F11_01
Subjects: Medicine; Medical care; Health care; Science and Technology; Children; Nurses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)