MAN WITH SORE FOOT SUCCUMBS ON WAY TO WESTPORT HOSPITAL
NEGLECTED FOR A WEEK. MEDICAL AID TOO , LATE TO SAVE HIM. WESTPORT, Last Night. While being conveyed from Karamea to Westport in ah ambulance yesterday, George Graham, a labourer, employed by the Public Works Department at Whangapeka, died on the way to hospital. Last Saturday he and an overseer loft , work ami came to the Little Wanganui Hotel, where they stayed the week-end. Campbell complained of having a sore foot but he said no more about it. At 1 o’clock on Saturday, he is supposed to have gone to the kitchen in order to get some hot water for his foot. Although he said nothing, it is thought that ho scalded himself. On Monday morning he was limping but said he was all right. Later he ’showed his foot to someone and it appeared to bo badly inflamed,; . He re-, turned to work at: Whangapeka arid worked until mid-day yesterday. The overseer noticed that he was looking very ill and spoke to Graham, who Raid his foot was very sore. The pvprseer, examined it and at once summoned; Dr. .Barraclougli, who. ordered his fctnoyal to Westport hospital iri the, am'bulapce. -, However the jiad .'proceeded only a short distance., when, •Graham died. . '
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1928, Page 3
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