Polio Claims 13 Victims In Arctic
OTTAWA, Mar. 6. A radio message from the medical team at Chesterfield Inlet in the Arctic said that 60 people there had been stricken with poliomyelitis and 13 were dead. The message said the epidemic was apparently under control as no new cases had been reported since February 27. Though several white men were living in a small village on the north-west shore of, Hudson Bay, all the victims were Eskimos,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22889, 8 March 1949, Page 3
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