FATAL ERROR.
~ DEATH OF SCHOOLMISTRESS. CORONER’S ADVICE TO SURGEONS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 18. As a result of the further inquiry into the death of Miss Salmond, the schoolmistress who died after being given a wrong anaesthetic, the Coroner, Mr H. A. Young, to-day issued tho following recommendation to surgeons : —“ln view of this fatality and with a view to eliminating the possibility of a similar error, I would, on the evidence before me, suggest to operating surgeons tbit when the circumstances are such that there is any possibility of a drug in a lethal quantity being injected they themselves fill or supervise the filling of the syringe or syringes to be used by them.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 252, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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