HOSPITAL DISASTER.
EXPERTS DISCOVER CAUSE.
GAS FROM X-RAY FILMS. United Service. NEW YORK, May 22. At a coroner's inquiry into the disaster at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital a Gov-, eminent; expert gave evidence. He expressed the opinion that decomposition of the X-ray films in the basement created a gas which either exploded by itself or was easily inflammable and was responsible for the disaster.
A 4ft. pipe heating tunnel ran entiroly round the building. The gas from the decomposed films finally filled that pipe. A ;spark or explosion of some kind in the basement then forced the gas back through the tunnel. The series of explosions followed, passing up through every heating pipe in the building The effect was to permeate each room, hall and passage with a poison gas more deadly than any used in the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 11
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