Dawn Fraser was born into a poor family on the 4th of September 1937; she was the youngest of eight children, three brothers and four sisters. She lived in a house in Balmain, Australia.
Dawn was a very sick child, and had chronic asthma and other chest diseases, it got to such a stage that her parents thought that she had , a deadly illness that attacks your chest. Fortunately, she found a miracle cure, the local swimming pool, Elkington Park Baths, now renamed, The Dawn Fraser Swimming Pool. The combination of the chlorine smell and worm air opened her airways and helped her breath. Her…
