DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK
IX FROZEN ALASKA. [United Press Association—By EleotrU Telegraph—Copyright). (Received 10.10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, March 14. Diphtheria is sweeping north-west Alaska. The veteran Joe Crossan, made an epic flight of a thousand miles across the frozen wilderness and delivered half a million units of anti-toxin.
Tho Presbyterian hospital is overflowing. Doctor Hoary Groist. the only physician in this part of the frozen world is working day and night with his wife for the immunisation of 300 natives and dozens of whites. Several deaths are already reported.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1931, Page 5
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86DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1931, Page 5
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