BOY INJURED.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19787, 27 November 1929, Page 15

BOY INJURED.

DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS. The dangers attendant on chemical experiments by those not fully qualified to undertake them was exemplified at Belfast on Saturday, when Kdward Garrick, the eighteen years-old sen of Mr D. P. Garrick, manager of the Belfast Freezing Works, was seriously injured. Th.- vouth, it is stated, attends St. Andrew's College. On Saturday he was engaged on some experiments in his father's garage, a youngtr brother being present. Young Garrick rammed some chlorate of potash throat lozenges, or tablets, and icing sugar down a threequarter inch galvanised pipe. His voungcr brother had just left the garage when a great explosion took place. When young Garrick was examined it was found that five ribs were broken, that a hole had been made in his left chest, that the pleura had been punctured, and the top of the little finger of the left hand blown off. He was removed to St. Georges Hospital where he was operated on by Dr. Acland on Saturday and again on Sundav afternoon. The other effects of the explosion were that a piece of tffe galvanised pipe penetrated the bonnet of the motorcar in the garajre. The double doors of the garage, and the camping trailer were shattered. The prescription that young Garrick was working on was found in the garage. His condition at the Hospital last night was reported to be serious.