FIRST AID TO THE INJURED.
Another instance in which knowledge of the principles of first-aid to injured might have aaved life is afforded by the fatal accident to Joseph Mulvaney in a street in Wellington the other day. At the inquest (the "Post" states) the Coroner asked Dr. Ewart, "Had anyone been present from the first who knew first-aid to the injured, could he have saved him?" and the doctor replied, "Very easily, so far as the hemorrhage was concerned. That could have been stopped merely by pressure of the fingers on the femoral artery." Dr. Mackenzie stated that he only happened to be passing on a tram at the time, and stopped to see what the crowd was gathered for. He also believed the man's life could have been saved had anyone known how to stop the bleeding. Mulraney, it appeared, baa been lying in the road for ten minutes unaided, and it was stated that all the doctors in. town had Been rung up, but none wero. in. There were about 150 people standing round the man, and none of them knew what to do.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10480, 19 October 1899, Page 5
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