BLOOD POISONING.
HOSPITALS NEAR STABLES. [BT TfJtEGKAPH — PHESS ASSOCIATION.] LYTTELTON, This Day. Alexander Greer, who had his head fractured on Monday in the hold of the Waipori, died this morning. He progressed very well till yesterday afternoon, when septic pneumonia, to which death was directly due, set in. Dr. Guthrie states that the septic pneumonia was almost certainly due to the situation of the local casualty ward, which is alongside a stable, and that he has reason to believe that a manure heap is an almost pure culture bed for streptococcus, which is an almost inevitable cause of blood poisoning and other septic affections. The place, he says, is absolutely unsafe for surgical cases.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 5
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114BLOOD POISONING. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 5
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