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wll become doctors m mdustry or take non-practising posts such as in

Usefulness

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| take ’ : a ek public health. and still more who go _ spre Pitone Sten Wand te The Boe! | on to specialize. As a result, the Of Surgery - caine ohet Maik ade uae ts Wallace Ward Frenk Welker | ranks of general practitioners are . oom ee an) Meet ee ee ee Managing Editor titer | By Dr, Theodore R. Vas Dellen MUCH money on good ‘ssching | baud Published every week dey morning (except Sum | not greatly enlarged. Industrial ratures sev. | 22, *heY appear to on public re- | Friend: “No. I said he’s got ‘day end statutory holideys) at 165 Printe Street, | Before a doctor can be trained— eral hundred below | lations, the latter would take | wife insurance. There are two Charlottetown P.E.!., by Thomson Newspapers Lid. | . ; dae ; zero and others than the | cam of Ives. — Stratford | other women waiting to marry ’ Brouch sffcce at Sumenerside, Montague, Alberton | 4nd the period, including internship, oun's tutaae cae Sees ald. him in case anything happens ' and Souris | is a minimum of six years—t he re: |, tests to determine their useful-| De fish areund bragging to our marriage.” — Montreal ' Represented nationally by Thomson Newspapets —s 4; ness in Gn the ge | Star. reais ce toronte 425 University Ave | Must be a place for him in medical cryogenies (techmilonr =; | % ue another about the size | Empire 3.8894 Montreal 640 Cathcart. Street Unt | school. From drawing the first plan . producing ‘and using ultrecold) | 0 the fisherman they got away oreo Comotion. cin aes ; versity 6-5942, Western Office 1030 West Georgle | +4 sraduating the first doctor may a head start medicine | from? — Calgary Herald. —

| States has been badly done, And:

ncouver (MA 7037 ; | Street Vancouve A woman in an English court, | the ignorance regarding Alberta

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Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers | take upwards of ten years. There is, gery on the brain and Association and ine Canadian Press. the Canadien | therefore, urgent need for the feder- | other organs of the body’ The in- | Charged with shoplifting, was FA ge =~ oe pay 4 Press is exclusively entitied to the use for repub strument is a hollow probe and | asked by the magistrate if she | ot points east as lication of al! news dispetches in this pape | al government to push ahead with the end can be cooled to 295 de- | Tepublic to the south. Canadian wredited to it or to the Associated Press or Revie | aid for medical schools. Existing grees F, with aiteomes. had enything to my on ber own | ignorance of Canada is much and also to the local news published herein. All ", The di liquid ‘nitrogen. | nehalf, “Yes sir, I have,” she | more serious, The average Can- ight or republication of special dispatches here | Ones will have to be enlarged and - ech ee replied staunchly, “I take only | wen knows neither his coun- In aan —— rete: : new ones built. And hand in hand rash of reports on its usage in| British goods.” — Hamilton try's history nor its geography.

$12.00 « year by mail on tural routes end oreee | With this expansion must go vastly maty deseees: Past examples | Cepeinir. ae Se ry by conten. a increased expenditure in research to ‘| balt bomb ‘and chads en :

: a year o sla an K. \ per | : . . . e ;

year in U.S. a elsewhere outside British Conr keep up with modern developments i ga its day. Differences With France monwealth. in the field of medicine. 3 Barnabas hospital in = By Arch MacKenzie :

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1965.

= Out On The Prairies

- Out on the Prairies, which Prime Minister Pearson plans to visit short- ly with nothing particular in mind, the mail carriers ignored the post office strike and stayed on the job. But if it isn't one thing it’s another to keep the rabbit's tail short. The wheat crop year ended Saturday on an inauspicious note, due mainly to the impasse between the elevator system and the grainhandlers’ union. The new crop year, 1965-66, started Sunday under-the,handicap of strike- bound grain at British Columbia har- bors. Montreal is tied up, too, due to 1,900 striking grain handlers and 5,-

_000 longshoremen in a sympathy |

walkout.

- Judging by outward appearances, Mitchell Sharp. the minister respon- sible for the Wheat Board, does not seem to be too perturbed about the continuing tie-up of Pacific ports. But according to the Saskatoon Star- Phoenix, his complacency is not shar- ed: by those-farmers who have wheat for market, and who have failed to déliver the full quotas of their crop because of the blockade at export points. Mr. Sharp said in Winnipeg

~ the government will not intervene until Dr. Neil Perry, the mediator,

arena enareeepyseeraege

reports.

=: Meantime, farmers in western Saskatchewan and Alberta, whose ex- port outlet is Vancouver, ended the old crop year short of cash to which they were entitled if they had full- filled their delivery quotas. If they deliver their last year’s wheat in the new crop year it will be. allotted against their quotas—an arrangement to which the farmers strongly object. Inasmuch as they had nothing to do . with the grain export tie-up; they don’t sée why Mr. Sharp shouldn't

| ._give-them—until_August-31-tocom-.

plete deliveries of the old crop. Meanwhile, too, the elevators in-

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benefits in’ cash from their country elevators which profit from grain stored there by farmers. Mr. Sharp still expects the 1965- 66 crop will be the second greatest in “history. In 1963-64, 525 © million bushels of wheat were exported, far ahead of the previous record set in 1928-29 when 498 million bushels were exported. This year’s estimate falls between these figures, and it is, of course, big news for the Prair- ies. For the time being, however, it does not lift.the load of worry from the farmers. They wonder’ where they will -store-the new~-grain-crop while the old crop remains on their farms or in plugged- country elevat- ors.

The Doctor Problem

If the national. medical insurance plan proposed by the federal govern- ment goes into effect in July, 1967, Canada will be faced with a shortage of general practitioners. A feature of this problem, as noted in the Ham- ilton Spectator, is that it will tend to be mote acute in provinces which are largely agricultural than in those which are heavily industrialized and have bigger centres of population.

.= Statistics are often deceptive and tat which shows the present ratio of one physician to every 860 Canadians seems -particularly so. A_ rule of thumb average for the country as a whole takes no. account of specialists, nor of the uneven distribution of gen-

-efal practitioners. But it is the avail- ability of medical aid that will be- come of cardinal importance in the

' s¢heme now being considered. * The salution~ involves, of course, an ‘in- tensive speeding up in the provision of medical schools.’ = The annual average of graduates from-Canada’s twelve medical schools

_ intthe 1946-61 period was 785. From

|

this number have to be deducted

foreign students who return to prac- tice in their own countries, those become teachers, others whe

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If national medicare becomes a fact, Canadians will discover that its costs “escalate faster than any theor- etical estimates made in advance. The need for new medical schools will be among the first and most pressing. .Not only must there be enough gener al practitioners, but they must be distributed according to need. This is basic to any universal . medicare concept, and it is the point about which we have heard least from fed-

| eral spokesmen to date. Let us hope

that at the forthcoming health min- isters’ conference it will not be over- looked.

‘On The Hudson

A group of U.S. politicians was -exposed for six hours one day last week to what one of their guides call- ed “the horrors of the Hudson.” Oil

slicks, ‘dead. fish, garbage, detergent _

bubbles, beer cans and other debris rode the majestic bosom of the river as members of the National Parks and Recreation Subcommittee of the House Committee on Interior and In- sular Affairs boarded a power cruis- er to see for themselves what the water pollutién clamor was about. It ‘must have been a chastening experience. The congressmen had previously held public hearings on legislative proposals to save what re- mains of the-scenic beauty of one of

--America’s—most—famous-—-waterways.—

Native guides stopped at nothing to show how the river had become pol- luted and the shorelines desecrat- ed—defiled by gas tanks, shabby marinas, grim factories, scrabrous quarries and power plants.

What the subcommittee wifl ‘de- cide is whether federal intervention is necessary to prevent further man-

.made havoc, especially in the region -of the Hudson Highlands, where the

river snakes for 15 miles between rugged wooded hills. New York’s

Governor. Rockefeller. opposes any

such intervention, contending that his Hudson River Valley’ Commission: is

vation. That appears to be wishful thinking on his part. There has been, atthe New York Times well says, “‘a woeful absence of legal pro- tection for a great national heritage.”

A “highway of histery,” the Hud- 80mwas fille With forts and encamp- metits in the Revolutionary War, but one landmark is now partly hidden by the rusting wrecks of an automobile graveyard. “The Great River of the Mountains,” as Henry Hudson called it, flowed for centuries through raw wilderness, undisturbed. The. red men who dwelt beside it hardly alter- ed-its-primeval_fastness._But-in-dec- ades to come it may cut through a vast -urban—and--suburban—complex

thrusting north under pressure of ex- |

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panding populations.

Our waterways are undergoing a |

similar transformation in this coun- try, though more slowly, and are

worthy of the combined efforts ofall |

who would preserve them unspoiled for future generations.

_ EDITORIAL NOTES

. The head man of Indonesia is

quoted as saying that “God willing,”

his country will have the atomic

bomb. God willing, indeed! * ~ a”

The Quebec government is mak-

ing a real effort to get to the bottom

of the province’s farm ‘problems. It |

has appointed a commission to study

“the steps to be taken so agricultural

production gives farmers revenue in line with that of other classes of .

society.” The areas singled out for |

special attention are: creation of more profitable markets; improving marketing procedures; cutting the net

cost of production; reducing the cost |

of processing farm products; and con- solidating farm. operations. The com-

mission; in consultation with the | minister, is to fix an order of prior-_

_ity, for’ its studies and_produce pre-_ liminary reports on key subjects. Its final report is to be turned in by the efid of April, 1967. =

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A

EGG AND SPOON RACE

A PICNIC WHILE IT LASTED

Announcement by the King- dom of Jordan that it will es- tablish its first national park

could mean the beginning of | one of the most hopeful land

rehabiliation projects yet esta- blished in the Middle East.

The Middle East contains the largest man-made desert areas in the world. Centuries of use and overuSe of this area make it the classic example of what can happen to the land when, it is ‘misused by man. The com- mon belief..that the Middle East

couldn't be farther from the truth. - — ;

A vivid description of what ‘this -territory was once like is found in Xenophon's~‘‘Anabas- is’. In 401 B.C. this: Greek his- torian along with 10,000 Greek mercenaries found themselves trapped deep in what was then country ruled by - the Persian Empire. Xenophen's first hand report of the 1,500-mile march made by the Greeks in order to return to their homeland is one of the classic accounts of antiquity; -When-this-army—pass- ed through what is now the Middle East here is what they found: ‘

__‘'In_ this part..of the eountry. was one great flat plain like a sea, covered with absinth; what- | ever there was. besides’ of Wood

tree, but all sorts of animals,. troops of wild asses, plenty of

velles; and the horsemen often chased these. The asses, if they were chased, ran ahead and stood still, for they ran much faster than horses, again when

as before, and they could not be caught unless the horsemen placed themselves at intervals and hunted in relays. The meat of those caught was like veni- son but more tender.”

the British ornithologist and ex- plorer, journeyed through ap proximately this same region at the invitation of Jordanian/King Hussein he found a land where in—some—places;—nature—has simply given-up the fight.”

| The wild ass and ostrich were | extinct. The gazelles and bus tards (a bird as large as a tur- | key) were down to so few that he felt certain that within ten years they and other ani- | mal speciés still in’ the area would, disappear completely.

Yetas late as 1917-18 Law-

is_and always has been desert.

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ostriches, bustards also and ga-,

the horses came near they ran 3

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Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (August 3, 1940)™

The Bremen radio suddenly shut down late last night, indt- cating stern continuation of Bri- tain's sledge-hammer air raids on Germany-raids which the Air Ministry announced had scored -smashing successes against sup- ply dumps, ports, airdromes and | war industries in more than 100 German cities. With such raids Britain hopes to sap any Nazi ! Blitzkrieg at its roots.

Yesterday, President Roose- velt directly advocated peace- | time military conscription in the | United States and- his former |. Secretary of War, Harry W.

Woodring, opposed it. -

TEN YEARS AGO (August 3, 1955) Cyrus Eaton paid a flying vis- | it to Charlottetown with several guests which included some of | the world’s most noted scholars | as well as a number of newspa-

The famous Walter Callow bus ‘arrived in Charlottetown for a three day visit, sponsored by the Alpha Rebekah Lodge who are being assisted by the*ladies’ au- xiliary of the Canadian Legion.

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In 1964 when Guy Mountfort, |

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JORDAN'S NATIONAL PARK Reclaiming A Once Marvellous Country

Maria Sorenson In The Christian Science Monitor

rence of Arabia had been able to feed his Bedouin raiders off this same desert. What has hap- pened: Several things. Goats -have proliferated and literally eaten the remaining vegetation away. Goats can strip a land of every trace of vegetation and when this is gone learn to climb trees and eat the leaves.

The last of the forests went té fuel the Hejaz railway dur- ing World War I. Today, the Bedouin who must. find fuel -for their campfires are pulling up the small surviving bushes. Mr. Moiintfort found that it requires a quarter of an acre of these little shrubs to cook a pot of | coffee.

Oil discovered in the neigh. | boring Arab states has caused | the most recent catastophe to '

| the remaining large game. New-

| ly rich sheiks roar into Jordan |

in jeeps and cars shooting down | with machine guns any game they can find.

To reclaim this marvelous | country, so steeped in history | and once so rich in plant and | animal life, Jordan faces one of

the most formidable conserva: |

tion tasks yet tackled. The Mountfort expedition recom- mended a government subsidiz- ed program of kerosene for the , Bedouin. as —a-first~ step in al-

_lowing the vegetation te begin

to grow again. Dedicated “Jordanians will no

{doubt find plenty of help in the

world's conservation and scien- tific community. The results could mean the beginning of a ‘new area for Jordan's people and wildlife.

ernates through a long winter.

floes that float out to sea or pile upgn, shore. The town becomes watery with slush. -

two and.a half. months of warm weather. Workers swarm into town to unload freighters from

with grain from Canada’s Prair- fe Provinces— Alberta, Saskat- chewan, and Manitoba. SHORT-CUT TO EUROPE

The ships disgorge. goods ranging from toys to tractors. Most come from England and continental Europe. In turn, more than 20,000,000 bushels of wheat are poured into waiting holds. .

Ships brave the forbidding wa- ters, perilous with icebergs, for a sound economic reason. This route to Europe {ts 1,000 miles shorter than the route down the St. Lawrence River.

Churchill—eannot—be—reached by. car or truck, for no-road ex- tends into this desolate region. Twice weekly, however, the Muskeg Express leaves Winni- peg and chugs across the bleak tundra to Churchill. When wea- ther permits, a plane lands reg- ularly.

End of the line for travelers | from the south, Churchill-is a jumping-off spot for north-bound scientific expeditions and for In- dians, Eskimos, and trappers. Many keep summer cabins at

Reds In Rhod

Ottawa

The Com ists, busy in Af- rica, recall for propaganda Ce- cil Rhodes’ ambition of ‘Africa British from the Cape to Cairo.”

Imperialist he was and the modern-day imperialists are the Communists who crave power and influence in Africa.

The Chinese Communists ap- pear more imaginative than their hated brethren in Russia — and they are back to the Rhodes’ technique. Rhodes be. lieved in communications and in the linking of British posses- sions. d

The Communists believe no

munications and

.| has come an offer to assist in

bringing into being a 1,000-mile railway to link Tanzania and Zambia, former British colon- ies.

A railway is wanted, espec-

per men representing several | ially by Zambia which would re-

lish_a connection to the sea in running through Rhodesian and Portuguese territory controlled by white r out. of favor with African leaders.

Py . ‘ LIN LE Me ROMO NT SN TEESE UM: Ee

But neither Mr. Myerere of

Late in June, ice in the Bay | and the Churchill River begins summer season may be fortun:| of epilepsy im which the indivi-

around the world and fill them |

—how {==

Brief Annual Boom -Natlonal Geographie Society

Canada’s Hudson Bay port at | the port. When cold weather re- | Churchill, Manitoba, booms for turns, Churchill is a vital sup- | 10 weeks of the year, then hib-' ply source for these adventurers moll: Is it hereditary? ~

of the Far North. - ae Early. arrivals im the busy

to-break:-It-cracks-into-myriad—-ate-enough to-find-rooms- at: the;

small hotel. Late-comers must resort ‘to. tents. Clouds of flies and mosquitos swarm from the marshy-muskes-t0—p “then | Polar bears occasionally tip | over garbage cans— a reminder to the uninitiated that Churchill is still a frontier outpost.

Early autumn forecasts t he | winter to come. White arctic whales stop frolicking in the Bay and seek open waters. Some 760

temperatures as low as -50 de- grees and winds up to 65 miles per hour. An icebreaker cau-- tiously leads the last freighter through thickening sheets of ice.

Churchill {is nearly two and a half centuries old. In 1715, the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish a trading. post on the western shore of the Bay. But the warlike Cree Indians hampered trade with friendly, fur-trapping tribes:

A Chippewa woman, who had + been captured by the Cree,.es- caped and offered her services as an interpreter to thé com- pany. Acting as peacemaker, she talked down the fiercest Cree chiefs and helped make arrangements for all the Indians to trade peacefully. Soon after, in 1717, Churchill was founded. Its ‘name honors Lord John Churchill, first Duke of Marl- borough, and ancestor of the late Sir Winston Churchill.

es" Footsteps

Tanzania nor Mr. Kaunda of Zambia has jumped enthusias tically at. the offer. When the Chinese: offer a cut-rate survey — which may. be-followed by an offer to build a cut-rate railway |— Africans suspect there will be imported Chinese labor to keep Africans out of needed jobs and increase the Communist Propaganda drive. The Chinese

can turn to the benefit of the West. The British have ‘offered to pay half the cost of-the rail- way survey and there {s argu ment in London they should of- fer to pay for the whole survey and thus be able-to demonstrate the actual cost and time requir- ed for the work. .-

The Zambians, .hopefully, have an idea that the Western and Communist , countries mi-ght combjne their efforts and build the railway under. direction of a neutral body. . ainda

"FEW WIN ALL THREE Only eight racehorses have

won the. “‘triple crown” of U.S. | racing, the last being Citation | im 1048. 3 .

kinds of wildflowers die back in) preparation for nine’ months of |-

Seons do the same procedure with electrocautery or caustics such as alcohol.

Cataracts are removed by cry- otherapy. An incision is made into the side of the eye and the hollow probe containing the liq- uid nitrogen is inserted until contact is made with the opaque lens. The cataract freezes im- mediately and adheres to the probe. It is then pulled out. Time will tell whether this is better than grasping the lens with an instrument, freeing the connec- tions, and lifting it out of the or- bit. Freezing also is used in tu- mor removal.

The use of intense heat as a high-speed bloodless cutting tool also has possibilities. The instru- ment —(plasma- are scalpel) shoots a jet stream of ionized gases ranging in temperature up to 20,000 degrees F. The fine needle of hot plasma in the sur- gical device is enveloped by a | cool gas mantle to protect . tis- | sues adjacent to’ the incision. |The stream derives its heat

energy into ions and electrons within a gas passing through an electric current. BENIGN BREAT TUMOR Mrs. F. writes:.Can a benign | breast tumor become cancer-

ous? REPLY This seldom occurs, and for | this reason everyone concerned heaves a sigh of relief when the.

| that the lesion is benign. NAILS AND JOINTS B. D. writes: Can osteoarth- ritis in many joints of the body | affect the mails? Mine split and | show ridges since I developed. | this condition. REPLY I doubt if there is a relation- ship except that disturbances of the nails and joints are common | in later years. j MINOR ATTACK OF EPILEPSY . writes: What is_ petit

MI,

° REPLY | Petit mal is a minor attack dual-has-a—blackout—asting—2- few seconds.- There is no von- vulsion and the victim does not fall. 2

| Mrs. D. writes: Can cataract poe cured by injections or is an operation needed? ~

REPLY | Injections are useless; gery is the only cure.

TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Keep your car in good repair. (NOTE: All correspondence te Dr. Van Delle should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.)

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| laboratory report Comes back |

The. basic differences between the United States and France on the future of the Atlantic alliance—more integration in all fields incliding defence or less —remain on ice. *

That at least is the official American position.

But within the next year a lot of fur is expected’to fly and |. knowledgeable American ob - servers feel some sort of show- down with President de Gaaulle is overdue.

Just how far-Le Grand Charles will go is another mat-

ter which raises all sorts of conflicting views. Most. pessimistic is that . de

Gaulle intends to take France right out of the treaty, signed in 1949, as he can do ona year’s notice in 1969.

His latest gesture has been to boycott naval manoeuvres.

The West. German elections in | September are cited as one |reason for. the United States using restraint in fresh over- tures for a stronger alliance. The nuclear question is particu- | larly sensitive in West Germany | and it is held that the U.S. de- ‘sire is far from dead to have | West Germany under the NATO ; nuclear cloak with the check ;and balances of some sort of | multilateral control.

from the dissipation of electrical |

| FLEET DYING

Canadian Press Staff Writer

American reasons for saying nothing currently.

But there is some evidence that the U.S. is determined # necessary to keep NATO fune- tioning militarily even with the loss of France as the primary base

France controls entry to Bu- rope geographically and cof- tains the bulk of the ¢ and expensive physical f ties — including headquarters— that makes NATO tick.

The U.S. Is believed ready te start anew outside France with London, Brussels or The Hagt | as new headquarters, replac | the pipelines, airfields and other

For doubters who suggest that

the U.S. is unlikely to force a | showdown with de Gaulle; there ‘Is one citation invariably given. This is a portion of the | speech beamed May 7 by Presi- |dent Johnson to Europe and | which says: "

“Let us therefore continue the | task we have begun, attentive

to counsel but unmoved by a |who seek to turn us aside. We | will all go together if we can. | But ff one of us cannot join in /a common venture, it will not | stand-in the way of the rest.”

'

We imagine that” most ~ non-

Britons who have seen London | Bridge cannot remember what iit looks like. (A goodly number of Britons living oustide London | would not be able to remember either.) Indeed, we suspect htat many people mistake Tower

| Bridge for London Bridge -— at |

~ + | thousands who see and use it

every day. But we‘must admit a greater attachment to ¢the~ London Bridge. of the rhyme than to the London Bridge now settling into the bed of the Riv- er Thames at the rate of an inch every eight years. (If it were Tower Bridge sinking into the mud, it would be for us, quite a different story.) =

of London’ has done the wiest thing in deciding to demolish

Charlottetown to: : Montreal —_ $17.00 Moncton | Saint John Halifax _—. Sydney Corner Brook $17.50 ~ Toronto _ Winnipeg Vancouver

LondonBridge ComingDown

| London “Bridge “and replace tt with another structure spanning |the Thames at approximately the same point on the river. The bridge that is‘to come down | has been there for only 134 years. and has little that is distinctive about it — except its:name. Yet that very name is a sym- bal For centuries, London Bridge was the only:one across the Thames within the city. The | first structure was put up by | the Romans, and the present one_is the third on the site.. The one sung about in the nursery rhyme was the second — a bridge that- had. houses on it, as still has the famous Ponte Vecchio over the Arno in Fle- rence. The financing of the fourth

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pletion i 1970 = "also “has

something symbolically _histori- cal about it. Building it will ‘not cost taxpayers a penny. It will be paid for out of corporation funds accumulated im an ae- count opened in the thirteenth century. Which all goes to show that tall oaks from little scorne grow. :

MANY DIE YOUNG

The Corporation of ‘the City | About 13,000 Canadian infants

die each year before reaching | their first birthday.

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