Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Polio Victim Taken off Ship--Sidney Moody, Jr., 21, of Plainfield, N.J., stricken with polio aboard the liner Parthia in mid-Atlantic, is carried to an ambulance on a stretcher after the ship docked here tonight. He was taken to New York Hospital and given a good chance to recover. A portable iron lung which has been taken to the ship by plane and Coast Guard cutter was not used at any time during the voyage.
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Polio Victim Taken off Ship--Sidney Moody, Jr., 21, of Plainfield, N.J., stricken with polio aboard the liner Parthia in mid-Atlantic, is carried to an ambulance on a stretcher after the ship docked here tonight. He was taken to New York Hospital and given a good chance to recover. A portable iron lung which has been taken to the ship by plane and Coast Guard cutter was not used at any time during the voyage.
Associated Press · [ca. August 1949]
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