CALLED ASHORE
TETANUS AT PITCAIRN
THREE DOCTORS ATTEND
(By Telegraph.)
' (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day,
When the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's liner lonic was passing Pitcairn Island, a call for medical assistance ' was received, and the vessel stopped for three hours while three doctors went ashore.
One of the Islanders had contracted tetanus (lockjaw), and had been ill for several days. Dr. Eisdell Moore, of Auckland, Dr. P. F. Woodruffl-Minett, the ship's surgeon, and Dr. Alfreda Slater, a passenger, who is going to Dunedin, all attended the sick man.
Dr. Moore stated this morning that the Islander had contracted tetanus by scratching his foot. He had been ill for ten days. Ho was given some anti-tetanic serum, and the people were given a lecture on the treatment of tho complaint. "It will bo particularly bad for the island if there is an outbreak of tetanus," said Mr. Moore, "as it will bo impossible for the natives to obtain treatment." Jrlc gave instructions to them that it would be better if the man died to bury him at sea and not on land. This would prevent, as far as possible, the. outbreak of an epidemic. ■ . ■__
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 11
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