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BRIDE SHIP’ BABIES MUST BE 6 MONTHS
New York Times (1857-current file): Jun 8, 1946; ProQuest Historica Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2001)
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BRIDE SHIP’ BABIES MUST BE 6 MONTHS
WASHINGTON, June 7 (AP) - Infants under 6 months will be banned from ‘bride ships” bringing American serve men’s families from the European and Mediterranean theatres, the War Department announced tonight. No expectant mother beyond six months pregnancy will be carried and no ship is to be loaded with more that 25 per cent of children under 6 years of age.
This action was taken after study of a report submitted earlier this week by the board of inquiry that investigated the epidemic, tentatively identifies as infectious diarrhea, among children aboard the Army transport Zebulon Vance.
Nineteen infants were taken from the Vance to the hospital at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Of these, six have died and three others from the ship are reported to have died in other parts of the country “from acute diarrhea.”
Since the movement of war brides began, twenty-two infants’ deaths have been reported, five of them children not under Army care. One dying aboard ship was premature birth.
Since the shipment of war brides and babies from other theatres is so nearly complete, they are excluded from these restrictions.
BRIDE SHIP’ TOLL 13 AS 2 MORE BIBIES DIE
New York Times (1857-curent file): Jun 11, 1946; ProQuest Historica Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2001)
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BRIDE SHIPS’ TOLL 13 AS 2 MORE BABIES DIE
The thirteenth death among infants arriving here within the last three weeks on war brides transports from Europe was announced yesterday by officials of the New York of Embarkation. The child, who died at 8: 20 a.m.
BRIDE SHIPS’ Toll 13 AS 2 MORE BABIES DIE
The thirteenth death among infants arriving here within the last three weeks on war brides transports from Europe was announced yesterday by officials of the New York Port of Embarkation. The child, who died at 8:20 A.M. yesterday at the Fort Hamilton Station Hospital, Brooklyn, was John A. Innes, 2-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Goethals on May 26 from Le Havre. Another infant from the same ship had died previously.
Thirty-nine other infants from war brides transports are patients at the hospital. Three are listed are in “serious” condition.
According to The Associated Press, the twelfth death among children of American service men and war brides occurred Sunday when Jane Beryl Parks, 3 months old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Parks of Webster, Pa., died in a hospital at Charleroi, Pa., of diarrhea.
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