Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto...
...Canadian won a medal for explaining the "painful plight" of Canadian letters. The Canadian Authors' Association adjudged Toronto-born Edward Killoran Brown's On Canadian Poetry the best academic nonfiction work of 1943 by a Canadian, awarded him the annual Governor-General's medal...
...Toronto's General Hospital last week reported its 20th death in four years from sulfa poisoning, three within the last month. So aroused were Toronto doctors that the city's chief coroner held a widely publicized inquest on Victim No. 18, to highlight the dangers of using sulfa without proper medical supervision. From Milwaukee came a similar report: 15 sulfa deaths in the county hospitals in three years. Many another U.S. hospital might have added to the death score from sulfa if it had published its files...
...Toronto's Victim No. 18 was a young man whose doctor prescribed twelve sulfathiazole tablets for him for a tooth infection last summer. After the first box was used up, the young man bought another dozen, took eight. A few weeks ago he felt ill, thought he had "intestinal flu," took three more sulfa tablets. When he finally went to a doctor, he was vomiting. The doctor said: no more sulfa tablets. But it was too late...
...Toronto, Canada's wartime housing shortage approached its worst. As the Dominion's traditional moving day (May 1) neared, 1,000 families were on a vain hunt for houses to rent. One man advertised: "Shall I drown my wife and baby or will someone rent us an apartment?" He got 200 calls asking if he had done it, one offering a flat...