NO FIRST AID.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16508, 25 March 1914, Page 2

NO FIRST AID.

BOYS' ANKLE BROKEN AT SCHOOL. DELAY OF SOME HOURS. During the dinner hour at Philiipstown School on Monday an eight-year-old boy, Bert Elston, collided with another boy and broke his ankle. He is now progressing all right, but he had a bad run of luck between the time of the accident and the opsralioTi last night. The boy, immediately after the collision, was left sitting in a corner of the yard, where an older boy, going in late, found him. Word was sent to the mistress, and the boy was taken ill and placed on two chairs, the opinion being expressed that he would soon bo all right. But ho got paler and paler, and at three o'clock it was decided to send him home, so he was put astride a lady's bicycle and wheeled home. The only person at homo wab a little girl of fourteen, and she .vas placed in charge of tho boy, who was made comfortable on a couch, with a pillow under his head. About four o'clock a neighbour saw the boy and sent for Dr Simpson, who said the ankle was broken and operated shortly afterwards. Tho case is regarded asono in which a knowledge of First Aid on tho nart of the teachers might have saved tho little, boy a good deal of suffering, apart from the question of summoning medical assistance earlier.