Man Pronounced Dead Recovering
. MELBOURNE, March 6. Kevin Peterson, aged 28. was pronounced dead by a doctor yesterday. Today he is feeling fine. Peterson touched a 240-volt live wire while working in East Coburg. A doctor examined him and said his heart had stopped and he was not breathing. Medically, he was dead. Hospital-bound in an ambulance, a medical official used a resuscitation machine on Peterson and administered oxygen. Just as they arrived at the hospital, Peterson began to breathe. He is recovering in hospital.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27911, 7 March 1956, Page 3
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