DEATH ON WAY TO HOSPITAL

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 303, 22 September 1928, Page 6

DEATH ON WAY TO HOSPITAL

PUBLIC WORKS LABOURER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Westport, September 21. While being conveyed from Karamea to Westport in an ambulance yesterday, George Graham, a labourer, employed by the Public Works Department at Wiia ngapeka, died on the way to hospital. Last Saturday he and an overseer left work mid came to the Little M anganui Hotel, where they stayed the weekend. Campbell complained of having a sore foot, but lie said no more about it. At 1 o’clock on Saturday he is supposed to have gone to the kitchen in order to ■*et some hot water for his foot. Although he said nothing, it is thought that he scalded himself. On Monday morning he was limping, but said he was all right. Later he showed his foot to someone, and it appeared to lie badly inflamed. He returned to work at Whangapeka, and worked until midday yesterday. The over-seer noticed that he was looking very ill, and spoke to Graham, who said his*foot was very sore. The overseer examined it. and at once summoned Dr. Baraclough, who ordered his removal to the Westport Hospital in an ambulance. The ambulance had proceeded only a short distance when Graham died.