Dionne quintuplets survive first week with Dr Dafoe aid
Keith Munro recounts in the January Readers Digest how Dr A R Dafoe kept the Dionne quintuplets alive during their precarious first week. The group weighed under 11 pounds on day five as rum doses and minimal handling preserved their fragile lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R.dafoe
Keith ‘Munro
Toronto Star
Marie
Emilie
Toronto
The
Star
Dionne
Dr. Datog
Torgether
Dafoe
Newfoundland Name Lore on New World and Fogo Islands
A historian discusses place names around the Bay of Notre Dame known as The Green Bay. It covers New World Island and Fogo Island harbors, origins of names like Tilting Harbour, Joe Ball's Arm, and Wadham group islands, and notes on Cape Enfame and historic maps. It critiques long formal names and preserves local usages such as Tilting Harbour and Silly Cum Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay of Notre Dame
Green Bay
New World Island
Fogo Island
Toulousin
Touculotte
Brest
Cape Verde Islands
Lotia
Cape Enfame
Cape Breton Island
Ingonith
Harleyan
Prowse
Trigo
Castaldi
I. de Pogue
B. of Foggs
Mason
Taverner
Inleas
I. of
Foges
Isola del Nebbia
Island
N. B
Berlin
I de Fougue
British Museum
Newfoundland
de Fogo
Cabotte Chamberlain
EF. Prowse
Joe Ball
Foga
Trinity Bay
New Perlican
Scilly Islands
Landsend
Cornwall
Tilting Harbour
Tilton
Harbour Grace
Nomenclature Board
Pilot
Tilts
Tilton Harbour
P.M.G
Exploits River
Red Indian Lake
Ruchin
Cook
Buchan
Bay of Cork
Dudley
Jacobeteea
Champlain
Descellier
Twillingate
Bernard Drake
Elizabeth
Wadham
Wadham College
Oxford
Petre
Odenaburgh
Peckford
Jamea
Fogo Leland
Charles Hamiton
Hamilton Sound
Hamilton Inlet
Bay of the
Esquimanx
Jon Hawley Glovers
Grand Lake
Glover Island
America
Tiver
TB Control Efforts Grow Yet TB Remains Threat to Youth
Preventive and treatment measures are reducing tuberculosis, moving it from first to seventh in mortality. Despite progress the disease remains the major threat to young people, and regular check ups are urged to guard against it. Continued discussion is promised.
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Jake
Brick
Gerald S. Doyle Ltd
ST. John's
Purity Factories
R. Radway
Parker & Monroe, Ltd
St. John‘e
NFLD
Newfoundland Quarterly
Fogo
Terra del Fuego
Magellan
South American
Joe Batt
Nomenclature Committee
Doldrums
Dilly
B.de Kork
Cork
Progres
Ayre & Sons Ltd
St. John’s
Builders Contractors
Carpenters Home Owners
O'Learys
Confederation Life
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