Mysterious Disease in Canada’s Far North
(Rec. 11.10). OTTAWA, Feb. 28. Eleven persons were reported dead in Canada's sub-Arctic area to-day from a mysterious disease which first was reported from the Chesterfield Inlet area, 350 miles north of Chruchill, Manitoba. The report was received from Dr. J. P. Moody, Dominion Health Department official at a lonely outpost, No white persons were included in the dead. To-morrow five doctors with three hundred pounds of medical supplies will be flown to Chesterfield Inlet in a R.C.A.F. ski-equipped Dakota plane. Doctor J. W. Wood, • regional superintendent of Dominion Indian Health Services, will accompany the flight. He said that the illness may be due to a nervous disease caused by virus infection, or food poisoning. Forty thousand square miles of the Northland have been quarantined in an attempt to isolate this epidemic and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been ordered to enforce quarantine. _
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Grey River Argus, 2 March 1949, Page 5
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