Iron Lung Shipped
Advice to the effect that the “iron lung" respirator for hospital use donated by Lord Nuffield to the Cook Hospital Board, which was one of a number of hospitals in New Zealand to benefit, in this way from the generosity of the well-known philanthropist, had been shipped from England was received at the meeting of the Cook Hospital Board yesterday afternoon. The notice from the Director General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, indicated that the ocean carriage of the gift was without cost to the board, which would only .hpve to pay transit charg.es in England to the ship’s side, and internal freight in New Zealand.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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110Iron Lung Shipped Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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