H He alt h an d G roomi ng Sl á i n te a gus C ói ri ú “I spent four years of my childhood in hospital after being diagnosed with polio, aged seventeen months. Due to the progressive treatment of the day, thankfully I recovered well in my early teens.” Anne Burns, a Polio survivor from Drogheda, Co. Louth, speaking of her childhood. Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte. Níor mhill dea-fhocal fiacal riamh. “Bhí an dabhach ann ’ach aon oíche Shathairn… ba ghnách le mó mháthair sórt bindealáin a chur ar mo bhachalla gruaige don oíche agus bheadh ringlets breátha agam ar maidin!” Cáitlín Bean Mhic Gabhann (née Ní Nualláin), ag caint faoi fhás aníos i mBéal Átha Beithe, Co. Mhuineacháin. I made you look, I made you stare, I made the barber cut your hair, He cut it long, he cut it short, He cut it with a knife and fork. “A number of my sisters got the measles and I was put in with them so that I could get it too so that we would get it at the same time, which was common in those days.” Cecil Hughes speaking of growing up in Sligo Town. Don Dillon with haircut, Tuam, Co. Galway Don Dillon le bearradh gruaige, Tuaim, Co. na Gaillimhe. Jean Mac Grath in the bath and her mother and sister Geraldine looking on, Bonniconlon, Co. Mayo. Jean Mac Grath sa dabhach agus a mháthaer ahus a deirfiúr Geraldine ann, Co. Mhaigh Eo, Article on magnesia in Ireland’s Own, 1939 Alt faoi mhaignéis i Ireland’s Own, 1939 Anne Burns from Drogheda, Co. Louth pictured in a polio fundraising booklet for Baldoyle Hospital, Dublin. Grianghraf de Anne Burns ó Dhroichead Átha, Co. Lú, tógtha as leabhrán bailithe airgid polio d’Ospidéal Bhaile Dúill, Baile Átha Cliath.