Word: toowoomba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around the world...
Died. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, 66, Australian nurse who discovered a new treatment for infantile paralysis (hot packs and massage); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Toowoomba, Australia (see MEDICINE...
...Sister Elizabeth Kenny told reporters in Sydney, Australia that her 40-year fight against polio was moving inexorably toward an end. Said she: "I am unwell and incurably so. I only hope I will be spared the time to come home again. I am very happy in my beautiful Toowoomba home among my own relatives and the people among whom I made my discoveries on poliomyelitis. I want to end my days at home...