TORONTO BABY DIES
BIRTH IN IRON LUNG TORONTO, Oct. 20 The baby to which, for the first time in medical history, a 17-year-old girl suffering from infantile paralysis gave birth inside a respirator or "iron lung rt at an isolation hospital lived only three hours. The mother, whose name is being withheld, had been in the "iron lung" for four months. During birth oxygen was administered when it was necessary to remove the woman from the respirator. The mother's condition is hopeful.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 13
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