[Letter and report from Sister Elizabeth Kenny to the Rt. Hon. Earle Page regarding the Royal Commission on the Investigation of Infantile Paralysis]. 1938.

Queensland. Royal Commission on the Investigation of Infantile Paralysis

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Kenny, Elizabeth, 1886-1952

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Elizabeth Kenny, the daughter of Michael and Mary Kenny, was born September 20, 1886 in New South Wales, Australia. At 16 she graduated from St. Ursula's College, Queensland, Australia. She received her nursing training at a private hospital and served as a nurse in the Australian bush country from 1911 to 1914. It was during this period that she encountered her first case of infantile paralysis (1909) and developed her treatment for the disease. During World War I Kenny served as a...

Page, Earle, 1880-1961

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Page, a surgeon during World War I, was elected to the federal seat of Cowper in 1919; helped found the Country Party and was leader from 1920 to 1939; was Treasurer in the Bruce-Page government, 1923-1929; served in the second Lyons Ministry; was Prime Minister, briefly, in 1939; was a minister in the Menzies and Fadden governments of 1940-1941; and was Minister for Health in the Menzies governments of the early 1950's. See Truant surgeon (A. & R., 1963). From the description of...