LEG SET AT SEA.
ENGINEER ON THE MAHIA.
CAPTAIN PERFORMS OPERATION.
SYDNEY, Sept. 2
A graphic story of an operation which was performed in mid-ocean by untrained men was told by the officers of tho Mahia when sho reached Sydney from London. Tho master, Captain Andrews, and a steward saved tho life of an engineer. Tho Mahia was bound from New Zealand to London without a doctor, when the engineer's leg was broken, the flesh being badly torn. He lost much blood and his life was in danger. Wireless calls revealed that no ship carrying a doctor was within call, so tho captain and the steward gave tho man an anaesthetic, and after strenuous efforts managed to sot the leg. 'Hie engineer was soon on the way to recovery, and is now convalescing in England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 9
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