LORD GIFT
"IRON LUNG" FOR HOSPITAL
INSTALLED LAST WEEK
Likely to be the means of saving lives, especially in the event of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, an "Iron Lung" lias been installed at the Whakatane Hospital. Although best known in colloquial language as the Iron Lung the apparatus is more precisely known as a cabinet respirator. By whatever name it is called its efficiency is undoubted. Installed last ucek, the respirator is the gift of Lord Nuffield, the motor magnate Avell known for his gifts to institutions and medical science, who has offered the apparatus to any hospital in the British Empire free of cost.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 102, 18 December 1939, Page 5
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106LORD GIFT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 102, 18 December 1939, Page 5
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