Oral history interview with Jo Ann Hall, 2007 October 30.

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Oral history interview with Jo Ann Hall, 2007 October 30.

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Hall talks about her family and growing up in rural Guthrie County, Iowa; contracting polio at age 16; and being treated at Blank Hospital in Des Moines for 3 months and continuing rehabilitation at home. In addition to the treatments she received at the hospital Hall talks extensively about her interactions with other polio patients she met while she was there. She also talks about her frustrations with the medical profession's lack of knowledge about post-polio syndrome.

Transcript: 11 leaves + photocopies of 10 photographs, 1 newspaper clipping, 2 page article about JoAnn published by the Advance for Christ and His Church.Sound 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...

Wetteland, Annette,

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Hall, Jo Ann b. 1933,

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