SCHOOL TRAGEDY
BOY FATALLY INJURED STRUCK WITH BAT AT PLAY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. The need of the utmost care in the case of school accidents was referred to during consideration of the head mistress’s report on a fatality at a country schobl which came before the Wellington Education Beard to-day. The report "revealed that a pupil hadbeen playing tip-and-run and had been accidentally struck over the ear with a bat. He had reported to the headmaster, and Was found to be bleeding from a cut on the ear, but there appeared to be no injury to the head. After first-aid treatment, the boy, aged nine years, was accompanied by another boy to the house of the head master, where he received further treatment from the master’s wife. On returning towards the school, 80 yards away, he apparently felt ill, and was noticed by a girl pupil lying under some trees. The neaa master carried him to the school, made him as comfortable as possible, and made arrangements for him to see a nurse, the nearest doctor being 40 miles away. Hh finally put the hoy on a motor bus, which conveyed him to his home, where he subsequently died of a fractured skull. The verdict at the inquest, was accidental death. The secretary of the board said that the head master, who was a returned serviceman, had been much upset by the occurrence and had announced his intention of changing his vocation. Members commented on tlie urgency of masters looking carefully ’into all accidents, attd the view was expressed by several speakers that' it was impossible that anybody, even a first aid man, could have taken more measures for the boy’s care than the head master in question. The fracture was such that it might not . have been at once apparent even to a doctor, had there been one in the neighbourhood. The board decided to suggest that, rather than resign, the head master should take a year’s leave'. It was decided to defray the cost of the boy’s funOfal, and a motion of sympathy with the relatives, was passed.
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Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 4
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351SCHOOL TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 4
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