Oral history interview with Julius Conner, 2007 October 11.

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Oral history interview with Julius Conner, 2007 October 11.

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Julius Conner is an African American physician who directed the Polk County (Iowa) Public Health Dept. from 1965 until 2000. In this interview he discusses his family and education (including medical school); growing up in Omaha during the Depression and World War II; Iowa polio epidemics; Des Moines hospitals which served as polio treatment centers (Blank Hospital and its Younker Memorial Rehabilitiation Center and the Broadlawns Polk County Hospital); diagnosing and treating the disease; rehabilitation procedures; public vaccination programs promoted by organizations such as the March of Dimes; and public health measures taken to try to prevent the spread of the disease.

Interview log, transcript: 29 leaves + 1 photographSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Conner, Julius S., b. 1934,

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Scott, Kate.

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