OPERATION AT SEA
NIAGARA'S SURGEON CALL TO AMERICAN YACHT NOTED BANKER CRITICALLY ILL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 28, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 28 The associates of Mr. George F. Baker, the noted New York banker, announced that Mr. Baker's life had been saved when his steam yacht Yiking made a rendezvous with the liner Niagara, two days from Honolulu, yesterday, interrupting her voyage from Auckland to Vancouver for two and a-half hours while .the liner's surgeon, Dr. W. Clarke, and a nurse boarded the Viking and operated upon Mr. Baker for peritonitis. It was stated that Mr. Baker would be transferred to hospital on the yacht's arrival at Honolulu, which she was expected to reach on Saturday. A subsequent radio message from the Viking stated that a turn for the worse in Mr. Baker's condition later occurred. A coastguard cutter from Honolulu was ordered to rush medical supplies to the Viking, which afterward also asked that the cutter should bring blood donors, indicating that transfusions were necessary, but the cutter had already left. A naval aeroplane was therefore ordered to carry to the Viking a serum which could be used instead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 13
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OPERATION AT SEA
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 13
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