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Word: yorkton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carl to bed in their home at Usherville, he was running a fever. Next morning the fever was higher. Peter Derhousoff tried to phone the doctors in nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize it was a race with death." Three miles from Yorkton, the baby went limp in his mother's arms. Derhousoff tried mouth-to-mouth breathing, but the baby was dead on arrival at the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Doctors on Strike | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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