NUFFIELD IRON LUNG
URGENT APPEAL FROM UGANDA. Received Feb. 10, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 8. A Nuffield iron lung is being rushed nearly 5000 miles to Kampala, in East Africa, where an cutbreak of infantile paralysis has occurred. 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 and arrive in Uganda on Tuesday.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 10
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77NUFFIELD IRON LUNG Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 10
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