When a fault developed recently in the electric pump of an iron lung in the Kaitaia Hospital, in which a child was lying critically ill with infantile paralysis, a hand pump had to be used
for five hours to maintain pressure in the lung. The medical superintendent, Dr J. H. Webber, and members of the hospital staff, in turn operated the pump until the electric motor was repaired.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26731, 29 March 1948, Page 3
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