Series 16 - Medical: Poliomyelitis


Date Range1949 - 1961
ProvenanceEsmond Venner Keogh
Description

Publications, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, notes, experimental results, tables.


Inventory Listing

16.1.1 Articles received

"Observations on the Melbourne Poliomyelitis epidemic, 1937-1938" by F.V. Scholes [reprinted from Procs. of the 6th Pacific Science Congress, 1939, pp.157-70] [printed with annotation by Keogh]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.1.1
Date range 22 April 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.1.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.1.2 Articles received

"Morbidity and Mortality Trends in Poliomyelitis" [Statistical Bulletin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Vol. 35, no. 7 (July 1954), 11p.]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.1.2
Date range 7 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.1.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.2.1 Legislation

A bill for an Act relating to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories [No.13 of 1961] [photocopy, 13 page(s) 21 x 26.5 cm.]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.2.1
Date range 14 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.2.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.3.1 Committee Papers

National Health and Medical Research Council Poliomyelitis Committee - Minutes of Meeting, and Appendices [an Australia-wide review of procedures and statistics for polio. and its treatment] [25 and 19 page(s) roneo]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.3.1
Date range 11 July 1961
Inventory Identifier 16.3.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.3.2 Committee Papers

Special committee appointed by the Minister to report upon the production and testing of C.S.L. Poliomyelitis vaccine. [Keogh was a member: the Chairman was Sir Macfarlane Burnet]. Minutes (with Resolutions) [1 page(s) quarto typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.3.2
Date range 18 May 1961
Inventory Identifier 16.3.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.4.1 Salk Vaccine: Correspondence and memoranda re Testing

Letter from 'Bill' [Keogh] to 'Allan' [Ferris] re Vaccine trials [typescript 2 page(s) duplicate marked 'Copy']

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.4.1
Date range 28 April 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.4.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.4.2 Salk Vaccine: Correspondence and memoranda re Testing

Reply from 'Allan' Fairfield Hospital, Epidemiological Research Unit, to Keogh re progress on serum tests, and on various activities of researchers, C.S.L. personnel, and politicians' statements (Cain, Doube) [2 page(s) quarto typescript]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.4.2
Date range 10 May 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.4.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.4.3 Salk Vaccine: Correspondence and memoranda re Testing

Letter from Kevin Brennan, to Dr. A.J. Metcalfe, Director-General of Health, Dept. of Health, Canberra: re. need for a 'small committee' [of Burnet, Keogh and Fenner] of the N.H. and M.R.C., to issue advice on vaccination during an outbreak of polio. [1 page typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.4.3
Date range 11 May 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.4.3 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.4.4 Salk Vaccine: Correspondence and memoranda re Testing

Letter from Keogh to Dr. Jonas Salk, Virus Research Laboratories, Pittsburg, U.S.A.: summarizing Keogh's views on the production and testing of Salk's vaccine: [written while Keogh was still in the U.S., to give Salk the opportunity 'to comment or amend']

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.4.4
Date range 20 May 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.4.4 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.4.5 Salk Vaccine: Correspondence and memoranda re Testing

Notes on poliomyelitis in Victoria 1949-54 [prepared for a World Health Organization Report, by Keogh - and marked to Dr. Salk "for information and retention"] [2 page(s) typescript copy, with ink and pencil markings]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.4.5
Date range c. 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.4.5 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.4.6 Salk Vaccine: Correspondence and memoranda re Testing

Letter from A.J. Metcalfe (Director-General of Health), to Dr. K.G. Brennan, Chief Health Officer, Department of Public Health, Victoria: re American sub-committee and press reports, (June 1955) [1 page(s) quarto typescript and 5 page(s) duplicate quarto sheets (press reports)]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.4.6
Date range 18 June 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.4.6 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.1 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Commonwealth Serum Laboratories: Polio-. Vaccine: summary of Test results, various Batches [4 page(s) roneo, with annotations in colour pencilling]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.1
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.2 Polio - Vaccine Results

Results for cases (un-numbered; the names are similar, but in a different order from those above. [5 page(s) typescript copy, with ink annotations]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.2
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.3 Polio -- Vaccine Results

Results for cases (un-numbered; the names are similar, but in a different order from those above) [5 page(s) typescript copy, with ink annotations]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.3
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.3 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.4 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Serum Titration for Polio. Antibodies: Fairfield Hospital Patients, 22 January - 24 April 1951 [2 page(s) typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.4
Date range 4 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.5.4 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.5 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

[as above, but dated: 17 August 1952 - 6 May 1953] [1 page(s) typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.5
Date range 6 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.5.5 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.6 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Age Group Sera (Screen Test at 1/4): Sera Collected 20 June - 17 October 1951. [1 page(s) fcap. + 1 page(s) quarto, typescript copies]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.6
Date range 4 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.5.6 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.7 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Polio. Antibody in 212 "Normal" Sera: Childrend Aged 0-16 years [with manuscript note: '1951-52'] [1 page(s) typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.7
Date range 5 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.5.7 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.8 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Poliomyelitis Antibody titres in Serum Samples, collected June - August 1951, from 93 Children aged 3 - 16 years [1 page(s) typescript with manuscript annotations]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.8
Date range 4 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.5.8 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.9 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Type 1 Virus: Seed, and Antiserum dilutions [2 page(s) typescript]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.9
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.9 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.10 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Poliomyelitis Antibodies at 1/4 Dilution [4 page(s) typescript copy without annotation]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.10
Date range 18 April 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.5.10 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.11 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Poliomyelitis Antibodies at 1/4 Dilution [4 page(s) typescript copy with numerical annotation]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.11
Date range 18 April 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.5.11 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.12 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Poliomyelitis Antibodies at 1/4 Dilution [4 page(s) typescript copy with comments in ink]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.12
Date range 18 April 1955
Inventory Identifier 16.5.12 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.13 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

'Analysis of 56 Persons Aged 21-50' (overall statistics of Age Group, Antibody types, and Antibody distribution) [1 page(s) typescript]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.13
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.13 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.14 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Statistical analyses of T1, T2 and T3, (percentages of 'No AB' i.e. no Antibodies) [3 page(s) 38 x 22 cm. ink]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.14
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.14 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.5.15 Poliomyelitis Vaccine - Tests

Placebo Areas, and Cases of Paralytic Polio, Type 1 [1 page(s) 20 x 12.8 cm ink manuscript]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.5.15
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.5.15 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.1.1 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Monthly incidence of Polio. [1 page(s)typescript roneo sheet]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.1.1
Date range 1937 - 1938
Inventory Identifier 16.6.1.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.1.2 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Monthly incidence of Polio. [1 page(s)typescript roneo sheet]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.1.2
Date range 2 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.6.1.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.2 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Child incidence of Polio.

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.2
Date range 2 May 1905
Inventory Identifier 16.6.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.3 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Polio. cases in Victoria [1935-1951] [1 page(s) typescript copy, ink annotation]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.3
Inventory Identifier 16.6.3 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.4 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Polio. Cases [by age], 949-54 [2 page(s) typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.4
Inventory Identifier 16.6.4 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.5 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

"Age distribution of attack rates in the 1949 epidemic" [headed 'Table VII' - estray] [1 page(s) quarto typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.5
Inventory Identifier 16.6.5 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.6 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

(Poliomyelitis Statistics): tables for the period 1949-51 [18 page(s) roneo]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.6
Inventory Identifier 16.6.6 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.7 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Polio. "Admissions to Fairfield Hospital" August 1952 - June 1953 "Type II Epidemic" [1 page(s) typescript copy, with pencil annotation]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.7
Inventory Identifier 16.6.7 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.6.8 Polio: Statistical tables - Victoria

Deaths from Polio. in Quinquennial Age Groups, [1 page(s) typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.6.8
Date range 1949 - 1954
Inventory Identifier 16.6.8 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.7.1 Polio: Australian Statistics

Deaths from Polio. in Australia, 1953-61 [1 page(s) quarto typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.7.1
Inventory Identifier 16.7.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.7.2 Polio: Australian Statistics

Polio in Australia '1956 on' [an outline of 26 statistical categories] [1 page(s) typescript ink annotation, copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.7.2
Date range n.d.
Inventory Identifier 16.7.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.7.3.1 Polio. in Australia

Polio. in Australia, by Degree of Paralysis [i.e. non/mild/moderate/severe] and vaccination status [1 page(s) typescript copy]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.7.3.1
Inventory Identifier 16.7.3.1 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.7.3.2 Polio. in Australia

Polio. in Australia by Extent of Paralysis [i.e. Bulbar/Trunk/Arms/Legs] and vaccination status] [11 page(s) (3 octavo and 5 fcap. and 3 quarto page(s)) typescript copies]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.7.3.2
Inventory Identifier 16.7.3.2 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.7.4 Polio: Australian Statistics

(Polio. in Australia): Tables 1-7 [covering Polio. generally, and 'Cases' accepted by the Surveillance Committee and aspects of viral and vaccination status]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.7.4
Inventory Identifier 16.7.4 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.7.5 Polio: Australian Statistics

'Schema for percentages infected at various ages' (by decennial years, 1910-60) [1 page(s) 20 x 12.8 cm. sheet, ink (with ink annotation)]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.7.5
Inventory Identifier 16.7.5 Box Number 12 Series 16
16.8.1 Papers (on Poliomyelitis)

'The effectiveness of vaccination in preventing Poliomyelitis in Australia over a period of two years" [Reprinted from the Medical Journal of Australia, 12 September 1959, pp. 370-72]

Creator Esmond Venner Keogh
Control 16.8.1
Inventory Identifier 16.8.1 Box Number 12 Series 16

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