ON WAY TO AMERICA
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
SUFFERER
(Received June 7, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, June 6.
The Shanghai correspondent of "Tha Times" says that Frederick Snite, the Chicago millionaire's son, a sufferer from infantile paralysis, who is making a journey from Shanghai to America in an iron respirator, has sailed. When he was transferred from the tender to the ship it was necessary to remove the "iron lung" for 3J minutes, during which time he was kept aliv.e by a respiratory machine which was worked by hand.
The original cable stated that the [journey would cost £125,000. During the journey Snite's life will depend on the efficiency of a portable petrol engine operating the giant respirator. The Chinese Government would cooperate, by clearing the lines for a special train in which Snite would travel to Shanghai. He would then cross to San Francisco in a speciallyequipped room in the liner President Roosevelt. From San Francisco a special train would carry him to Chicago. Snite would be accompanied by his father,, doctors,' engineers to operate the respirator, nurses, and diet experts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 10
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179ON WAY TO AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 10
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