ORDEAL IN HOSPITAL
WARD CEILING COLLAPSES STRAPPED PATIENTS ESCAPE ' ■ Patients in a London hospital escaped unhurt recently when part of the ceiling of a men's ward came crashing down, the plaster falling on the beds. The accident occurred in a small ground iloor ward in an annex to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury. The annex was formerly an alii dwelling house. Only three of the eight beds in the ward were occupied at the time, the other five patients being in the day room. Two -of those left were helpless cases, strapped to their beds. They were airmen who had received spina! injuries in crashes. The ward sister. Miss Kathleen Brougham, had just left her desk in the centre, and was walking down the ward when the ceiling fell. " The three patients were not frightened;" she said. One of the injured airmen, Mr. Herbert Mercer, said, " I saw the ceiling bulge. Then it fell, and when the dust cleared I could see the exposed laths above me."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 10
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