IRON LUNG
BEING RUSHED TO EAST AFRICA
OUTBREAK OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. TRANSPORT BY AIR LINER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.42 a.m.) RUGBY, February 9. A Nuffield iron lung is being rushed nearly 5,000 miles to Kampala, in East Africa, where there is an outbreak of infantile paralysis. The lung is being sent in response to an urgent cable from the Governor of Uganda, to the Colonial Office. It will leave Southampton by the Imperial Airways regular Durban service on Saturday to arrive in Uganda on iTiesday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 6
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88IRON LUNG Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 6
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