Meg Keneally
‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine childhood in Australia
‘“He had a bracket above his head that textbooks could be slid into, and I remember him studying Hamlet,” Keneally says. “His mother was always there, turning pages and changing books, and that’s how he studied.” Some time later, he learned the boy had died when a power cut rendered his iron lung useless.‘