Word: huron
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...church hamlet 86 miles north of Toronto, straddles Ontario Highway No. 12. Its 204 people are almost equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Both groups have known Mrs. Donald Mclsaac all her life. She was born Eva Baye, granddaughter of a full-blooded Indian brave on the nearby Huron reservation. As a dark, pretty girl with pigtails, she went to Fair Valley public school, later married Farmer Don Mclsaac and bore him eight children. Now a stout, cheerful woman of 48, she still works on the farm, does her own housework, looks after her husband and six surviving children...
...Michigan's Huron Mountain Club, where they have been reading, picnicking and canoeing for the last month, Mr. & Mrs. George Catlett Marshall posed for one of the few informal pictures taken of them (see cut) since the old warrior stepped down as Secretary of State in January...
...Port Huron's experience seemed just like that of many hospitals,* but the result offered hope that other such outbreaks might be arrested or avoided. Last August, babies born in Port Huron's red brick, ivy-covered hospital and sent home as normal began to be readmitted with diarrhea. Some died. Laboratory tests indicated none of the three commonest causes of the disease (bacteria of the Shigella or Salmonella groups, or a virus). In October the disease invaded the hospital's nursery. To cut down cross-infection, babies were kept in their mothers' rooms...
...Commissioner. Dr. Heustis and his staff sent to Scotland and Denmark for samples of a peculiarly virulent strain, previously reported only from Europe and catalogued by Danish experts as O-111, of the normally harmless coliform bacteria. An identical form was found in the bowels of 90% of Port Huron's infected babies...
...Heustis, "greatly enthused over the significance of these findings," believed that Port Huron's outbreak was licked. He warned doctors elsewhere to be on the lookout for O-111, and suggested the use of sulfathiazole for early treatment...