Remarkable Operation

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5148, 15 March 1906, Page 3

Remarkable Operation

fPer Ptesr. Association). Wellington. March 14 A remarkable surgical operation was lecently performed at Wellington Hospital. A young man named Harold Williams, employed at a foundry in the city, attempted tu remove an electric wire which was in his way while working on the top of a boiler. By some accident this wire w*as carryiu." a heavy voltage, and Williams received the full ''liaise with terrible results. Hi- riL'ht hand was so badly burned that it. has since been removed, and the bottom of his right foot, then in contact with the boiler plate, was burned away. After admission to the Hospital, the soleles? foot was strapped closely to the inside of the left thigh, io which it gradually grew. Then another operation was necessary to cut away the skin from the leg that, was to sole the injured foot. The skill adhered to the foot with the exception of a small patch, which was .-übsequeiitly mended by "rafting, The cause of the accident should never have existed, and William r- received £ll -j" compensation from the N**w Zealand Electrical .Syndicate,