BUNDABERG TRAGEDY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10511, 15 February 1928, Page 5

BUNDABERG TRAGEDY

FURTHER EVIDENCE. ON SERUM

HOSPITAL TREATMENT USELESS FOR LITTLE VICTIMS.

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Before the Serum Commission Dr Murray gave evidence that bottles containing scrum usually had attached a warning urging quick use, Inn those issued to Dr T hompson did not have this warning.

The attending nurse declared that every precaution was taken in sterilising the instruments used for the inoculation.

l)r Harris, superintendent of the Bundaberg hospital, gave evidence that most of the children had convulsions of a peculiar type, and the temperatures were as high as 10b • He injected anti-toxin. thinking there might have been a lack oi balance between the toxin and the antitoxin, but it gave no particular benefit.' Oxygen'" was administered extensively, .but did no good. He had never seen similar sickness, and bad had no experience of utn-munizatioii.