CASUALTIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 113, 15 May 1911, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

9 I SIX HOSPITAL OASES. The Hospital officials had a busy time on Saturday and Sunday attending to fresh cases brought to them for treatment. A little hoy, Arthur Harding, aged eight years, was brought in from Reikiorangi, Waikanae, with both his hands mutilated. He was playing in a fiaxmill, and somehow he got Jiis hands entangled in the machinery. He was brought into the Hospital, where it was found that part of three fingers of the right hand and one of the left required amputation. William Clarke, a cabinetmaker, of 46, Mem-street, ■whilst cleaning up his workshop on Saturday, cut the tendons of the left hand. He also was treated at the institution. David Grinton, a porter, fell in a fit in the street on Sunday, and the fall resulted in a severe scalp wound. Grinton resides in Dixon-sfcreet. John Voyce, a farm hand employed by Mr. Wall, of Plimmerton, who was travelling on a tramcar to Thorndon rail' way station, on Saturday night, fell from the car, and suffered concussion of the brain. He -was removed to the Hospital, and did not recover consciousness until this morning. James Wylie, who resides at the Eagle Boardingbouse, Courtenay-place, slipped on the footpath in that thoroughfare on Saturday night and broke his right lßg below the knee. He was removed to the Hospital this morning. Thomas Crawford, a player in the St. John's junior Rugby team, had his leg broken during the match with Athletic on Saturday, and he also was taken to the Hospital. On enquiry to-day all these patients were doing as well as possible.