IRON LUNG USED.
EFFORT TO SAVE LIFE,
MAN FATALLY SHOCKED
HASTINGS, this day.
While engaged at repairing power lines in Hastings this morning Mr. Alfred Gordon Read, a married man, aged about 37, received an electric shock, and he subsequently died at the Memorial Hospital. Mr. Read was on top of a power pole, and apparently contacted a 230-volt wire. He was seen by the ganger to fall across a crossarm attached to the pole, and there he hung until lowered to the ground by ropes. Artificial respiration was immediately resorted to, and at the hospital Mr. Read was placed in an iron lung. After about an hour of treatment, however, it became apparent that death had intervened. —(Prese Assn.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 3
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