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Out of intensive care four days after she had open-heart surgery, 14-year-old Barbara Cantwell of Bell Island, Nfld
Out of intensive care four days after she had open-heart surgery, 14-year-old Barbara Cantwell of Bell Island, Nfld

Out of intensive care four days after she had open-heart surgery, 14-year-old Barbara Cantwell of Bell Island, Nfld

Date2/18/1974
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  • Out of intensive care four days after she had open-heart surgery, 14-year-old Barbara Cantwell of Bell Island, Nfld., smiles at her father, Jack, in a ward in the Hospital for Sick Children. Barbara was starting to have heart failure because of a leaking valve, which was replaced in a five-hour operation. While Cantwell waited to see his daughter, he walked the streets of Toronto with little more that streetcar tickets in his pocket. The family lives on welfare.
  • Out of intensive care four days after she had open-heart surgery, 14-year-old Barbara Cantwell of Bell Island, Nfld
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Original Toronto Star caption: Out of intensive care four days after she had open-heart surgery, 14-year-old Barbara Cantwell of Bell Island, Nfld., smiles at her father, Jack, in a ward in the Hospital for Sick Children. Barbara was starting to have heart failure because of a leaking valve, which was replaced in a five-hour operation. While Cantwell waited to see his daughter, he walked the streets of Toronto with little more that streetcar tickets in his pocket. The family lives on welfare.
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      14 year old Barbara Cantwell from Bell Island, Nfld
      14 year old Barbara Cantwell from Bell Island, Nfld
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