CASE OF TETANUS.
PATIENT AT PITCAIRN. (Special to the "Guardian.") AUCKLAND. August 26. When the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's liner lonic was passing Fttr cairn Island a call for medical assistance was received, and the vessel stopped for three hours while three doctors went ashore. One oi tne islanders had contracted tetanus (ockiaw) and had been ill for several days. Dr. Eidell Moore, of Auckland, Dr. P F. Woodruff-Minett (the ship's surgeon) and Dr. Alfreda Slater (a passenger) who is going to Dunedin, all attended the sick man. Dr. Moore said this morning that the islander had contracted tetanus by scratching his foot. He had been ill for 10 days. He was given some antitetanus serum and the people were given a lecture en the treatment of the complaint. "It will be particularly bad for the island if there is an outbreak of tetanus," said Dr. Moore, "as it will be impossible for the natives to obtain treatment." He gave instructions to them that it would be better if the man died to burv him at sea, and not on land. This would 'prevent as far as possible the outbreak of an epidemic.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 269, 27 August 1930, Page 6
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