Dealing with mass death after a community catastrophe: Handling bodies after the 1917 Halifax explosion

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 288-304

  Scanlon, Joseph ^a  

^a Emergency Communications Research Unit   (Canada)

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EID: 34248537375     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653569810230139     Document Type: Article

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