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six hundred rads of gamma radiation applied to the entire body at one time would probably be fatal. CURRENT DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT |
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(Urgent report to the Ministry of Health, Ottawa.) Physician: James Clark, KEEWATIN FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE, Churchill Manitoba. |
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1. On 25 November, in response to a radio call from John Agikumi, a fisherman of Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories, I departed Churchill in a KFDS Cessna 185 aircraft accompanied by my wife, Helen Clark, a registered nurse. Agikumi reported a seriously ill infant of eight years of age (Edwin Agikumi, his son). |
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2. Due to inclement weather I was forced to turn back to Churchill on my first attempt to reach Eskimo Point. My second attempt, after an eighteen-hour delay, was successful. |
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3. The Agikumi family is of Inuit descent and is engaged in fishing the western waters of Hudson Bay, as well as the rivers and lakes in the vicinity of Eskimo Point. Family members are Agikumi; his wife, Mary; and four children, daughter Martha, sons Edwin, Charlie, and Warren. |
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4. The situation discovered at Eskimo Point was medically desperate. The child Edwin Agikumi had succumbed an hour before we arrived. Sons Charlie, 10, and Warren, 12, were extremely ill with the following clinical symptoms: nausea, erythema, epidermolysis, epilation, and an extremely depressed lymphocyte count. The girl Martha, 16, was terminally ill with acute pneumonitis. The mother, Mary Agikumi, complained of a cessation of her menses, and both she and John Agikumi displayed symptoms of advanced pneumonitis with body temperatures of 39.1 and 39.5 degrees Centigrade. |
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