'Polio Hysteria': La rentrée scolaire montréalaise de 1946 et l’épidémie de poliomyélite

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'Polio Hysteria': La rentrée scolaire montréalaise de 1946 et l’épidémie de poliomyélite
Abstract
During the 1946 poliomyelitis epidemic in Montreal, the postponement of opening schools rapidly became a public debate that allows the author to explore the different views of a series of social actors who attempted to impose their authority in the handling of the epidemic. The author examines the persistence of the judgments made by medical and school authorities around the capacity of parents to take care of their children’s health, as well as it sheds light on the reinforcement of parents as social actors in postwar Quebec. The health districts of Maisonneuve, Nord and Rosemont were the most affected by the epidemic, while the Sud-Ouest was the least affected. Seventy-five percent of the victims were Francophone Montrealers, 16.8 percent were Anglophone Montrealers, and 2.9 percent were Jewish Montrealers. The author examines how both Catholic and Protestant School Boards handled the epidemic, and how it was reported in the Montreal Daily Star and La Presse.
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Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine
Volume
Vol. 30
Issue
no. 1
Pages
123-142
Date
Spring 2013
Language
fr
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Poirier, Valérie. “‘Polio Hysteria’: La rentrée scolaire montréalaise de 1946 et l’épidémie de poliomyélite.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine Vol. 30, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 123–142. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cbmh.30.1.123.
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