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Photograph article dated December 28, 1960 partially reads, "Police today investigated the possibility that a defective heating unit caused a near-tragedy Tuesday when six members of one family were overcome by fumes in their North Hollywood apartment above a funeral parlor...All were rushed unconscious to Valley Doctors Hospital, North Hollywood...A doctor who examined the family at the hospital said they all seemed to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Valley Doctors Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hospitals--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles) Carbon monoxide--Toxicology Nurses--California--Los Angeles Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Oxygen masks North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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