A BOY'S LEG
AMPUTATED UNDER TRAM. REMARKABLE OPERATION. DELICATE WORK. dt CABLE PHESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 22, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 22. The amputation of the leg of a hoy caught under a Paddington tram was a remarkable operation. The limb was held between two converging bands of specially toughened steel, which would have • taken too long to cut or remove if the boy’s life was .to be saved. Three doctors were engaged, partly crouching and. partly lying under the tram, with the patient in a most awkward position. They had to administer an anaesthetic, and then in a half light, guided more by touch than sight, had to perform the delicate work of severing the limb, stopping the blood now, and removing the collapsed boy. All was done with remarkable celerity and success. Traffic was suspended, a police cordon keeping a great crowd from pressing too closely on to the impromptu operating theatre. The accident has raised a controversy on the need of preventing boys stealing rides on tram footboards. It was admitted that the police and tram officers were- practically powerless to stop this.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 7
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206A BOY'S LEG Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 7
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