SILK THEE ADS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10729, 29 October 1928, Page 6

SILK THEE ADS.

OPERATION ON HAND

MYSTERIOUS SAVELLING

SYDNEY, Oct. 16

It was frankly admitted at the AA’orkers’ Compensation Commission this afternoon, by Dr. CL E. C'orlette, of Macquarie Street, that the darkhued swelling of a claimant’s right hand was the first of its kind he laid encountered in the whole of his experience.

He performed an operation, using threads of silk in the hand, 1 ut subsequently it did not show the improvement. he had hoped to see. Dr. Corlette added he had heard that Sir Alexander AtacCormick had seen the patient, whose name is Peter Frederick Hogan. ' It was also stated by Dr. .Corlette that he saw Hogan in March, 1925. Records revealed that he had had a fracture of part of the right wrist. The condition of the hand was about the same to-day as it was in 1925. Hogan’s evidence was' that on February 6 this year ho was employed as a cleaner to the Government stores, having been transferred from the Lands Department. He, was brushing dust from a window, but a ladder on: which he was standing “capsized” and he fell on a-concrete floor, injuring the back of his head, his left elbowj and his right hand. A Government doctor told him he thought the right hand was fractured, and advised him to see a private octor.

The Commission announced that it was satisfied that the accident, had occurred on February 6, and that Hogan received injuries to his right hand, but the evidence did not show that the incapacity from which Hogan now suffered was directly due to the accident. The commission, therefore, found against Hogan.