No.526 Ellen Elizabeth Hancock Jerominski, 2010

File — Box: 63, Folder: 6

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Scope and Contents

Jerominski (b. 1925)grew up in San Bernardino, California. She graduated from San Bernardino High School at age sixteen and moved to Utah for nursing school at the University of Utah. She describes her work experiences and training, principally at the Salt Lake County Hospital (2100 South State) during the early 1940’s. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. Shei relates her experiences working with polio patients of all ages for approximately one year. She describes using Armstrong respirators (iron lungs), hot pack therapy, feeding and caring for polio patients. She recalls certain specific patients. Ms. Jerominski’s career was as a nurse, working with newborns, at the University of Utah.
Polio Oral History Project.
Interviewer: Becky Lloyd

Dates

2010

Conditions Governing Access

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