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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 16

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CORONER'S ■ SURGEON^;|f^S -As, the outcome, of liq enquiry into "the Salmond at St. August 28th, the Young, has issued/ the lolloiragj^J "At.the inquest Ifound fojlß Salmond died at St. GeorgeVJ||ffl| Chnstchurch, ? on-August 2|s|H the- cause; of 'death '*?"*«!§■ poisoning, due to cocaine,, yflTMB] mistake, instead jected round "her toiisils praor|Hß operation • for their'' removakMS| <-- "These two drugs w ®f e use in> connexion with the jjPgiSß the cocaine "was for tion. The theatre sister,.a'traMM and experienced ifteatm|H through, inadvertence, filled tnejHßJ with cocaine, which WM „J*9 e JBfIB the operating surgeon. under which the operating working was up to the tinw of|lHl currence of this fatality <&jsJsH reasonable grounds to be then he has himself filled theJgßJ when about to operate: - 'V^fflH "In view of this view to eliminating the P a similar error, I > would denoe before me suggest surgeons* that when the are such that there is SSSB of a-drug in lethal qaaalßtyMßJ| jected. they themselves fill ot'g&KSHi the filling of the syringe <*f to be used bv them. \y£BW "The evidence shows JBjfiW George's Hospital is fully eqffijßßM any emergency, and that **?'JBH administered." -"^PjH Since the introduction of -wJMjNJj vesting machines) it'is two farm ' labourers have placed by each iaratannoV**''^J