Eskimo Polio Victim Flown to Hospital-Obviously suffering, Victor Sammertok, 46, (center) is carried to an ambulance at Winnipeg from an RCAF plane which brought him and 12 other Eskimo victims of polio from their homes at Chesterfield Inlet, on Hudson Bay. The 1,000-mile mercy flight was completed early Monday. The 13 were hospitalized here. Sixty of the Inlet's 275 residents have been afflicted in the outbreak, discovered Feb. 21. The Inlet lies within the Arctic Circle, 250 miles north of Churchill.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1949]

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