The Tragic Case of the Toronto Hospital Baby Deaths

On June 30, 1980, 18-day-old Laura Woodcock died under suspicious circumstances in Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Although tragic, the young girl’s death was only the first in a sequence of strange and tragic deaths across the hospital. Between June 1980 and March 1981, Sick Kids faced an epidemic in cardiac wards 4A and 4B: they were experiencing a 625 percent spike in infant mortality rates. Over forty infants, ages nine days to eleven months, died in the ward during this period. While most of the children admitted were very ill, most were expected to improve and eventually be discharged. However, multiple infants were suddenly dying of heart failure and were unable to be resuscitated. <a href="https://medium.com/unsolved-canadian/the-tragic-case-of-the-toronto-hospital-baby-deaths-f33106abdfb3">Read More</a>