BRAVE WOMAN DOCTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

BRAVE WOMAN DOCTOR.

IN A GAS-FILLED MINE

A pretty young woman doctor walked half a mile in a gas-filled mino in Lanarkshire, Scotland, without any protection recently to attend to men who were overcome by gas at the Cadzow Colliery. Three" men wore killed by the gas, which had been released by a shot. Workfnen wearing gas helmets found their bodies after another man had collapsed in a rescue attempt. Dr. Norah MacKenzie Steele, of Ardmuir, Hamilton, had rushed to the scene when she heard of the accident. She went down the pit to attend to the men wearing a leather motoring coat „ and light shoes and stockings. She stayed down the mine for about two hours. One of the helpers said to me, " It was one of tho bravest things I have seen." . Dr. Steele went on with her ordinary day's work afterward, doubly heavy at the moment because her partner was on holiday. She said : " Anybody would have done as much for those bravo miners. I was not prepared for going down the mine when I left home, but immediately I heard the injured men were still down there, of course I had to go. I was down about two hours altogether and I had to walk a long way from the bottom of the shaft. I do not think it was particularly brave."