DEATHS AT SEA.
TRIALS ON THE TROPICS. MELBOURNE, Sept. 31. In the great heat while the R.M.S. Osterley was travelling between Port Said and Colombo three passengers died, and numerous others were prostrated. i Sir Thomas Henley, M.L.A., of New ►_x)uth. W ales, who was a saloon passenger, declares that the third-class ti a\ el ling conditions in the tropics require amendment. Modern methods of ventilation should be used, he contends. Conditions whilst passing the Red Sea, where there \veie cabins without portholes containmg six or eight beonle, he says, were unimaginable.
During the heat wave D. V. Todd, a steerage passenger, developed appendicitis. Dr. F. T\ . D. Collier, returning . Sydney after special surgical study in \ ieiina, volunteered to operate. Fortunately the sea was calm. An alley way was converted into an operatmg theatre. 'The patient recovered within a fortnight.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 15
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