Caption
Winnipeger Dr. Max Desmarais, Director-General of the Red Cross operation in Morocco, discusses treatment for one of the more seriously afflicted patients at the Moulay Yousef Hospital in Rabat. Dr. Desmarais, who chairs the Department of Physical Medicine at St. Boniface in Manitoba, was asked by the Red Cross to head the team of 70 doctors, nurses and physiotherapists from Britain, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the United States and Canada.
Release Date
April 5, 1960
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lynch, JimCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
A wheel of coloured beads holds the hopes of these determined young Moroccans as they work to restore life to limbs withered from the toxic effects of consuming airplane lubricating oil sold to thousands of unsuspecting natives as cooking oil. La maladie toxique, as it is known throughout Morocco, has crippled 10,000 men, women and children and new cases are turning up every day. An international team of Red Cross workers, 9 of them Canadians, has been working in the stricken areas since last August.
Date
March 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91997
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177283
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Margot Joncas walks one of the paralysis victims assisted by nursing aide. A group of young Moroccan men and women are being given a "crash course" in physiotherapy in the hope that they will be able to take over when the Red Cross team leaves after a year's service.
Date
March 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91996
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177282
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Veiled Moroccan woman comforts her fretful child as she patiently waits her turn at the Meknes centre. In majority of cases partial recovery of atrophied muscles is expected. A fortunate few can look forward to complete recovery; a tragic minority will be crippled for life.
Date
March 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91998
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177284
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The one little cream-coloured ambulance, emblazoned with the red crescent-symbol of the Red Cross in Moslem countries -- does yeoman service bringing paralyzed patients to treatment centres and returning them to their villages in the evening.
Date
March 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91999
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177285
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Physiotherapist Margot Joncas (right) of Montreal and Fanette Jacquet of Paris stroll down one of the narrow streets in the Arab quarter of Rabat. All of the members of the Canadian team are bilingual. "La Croix Rouge" is a by-word among the grateful native population.
Date
March 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB91995
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177281
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #256: Canadians Aid Paralysis Victims: With Red Crescent in Morocco
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
April 5, 1960
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Winnipeger Dr. Max Desmarais, Director-General of the Red Cross operation in Morocco, discusses treatment for one of the more seriously afflicted patients at the Moulay Yousef Hospital in Rabat. Dr. Desmarais, who chairs the Department of Physical Medicine at St. Boniface in Manitoba, was asked by the Red Cross to head the team of 70 doctors, nurses and physiotherapists from Britain, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the United States and Canada.
