A MEDICAL HERO.
In the London “Standard of 5. cember last mention is made 0 ~ heroic devotion of a medical man, might well cause people to cry u e on those ease-loving members or . profession who at times decline ■ the comfort of their homes to a ‘ suffering humanity. Dr Vk 1 was the medical officer to th Port district, which includes the of Aranmore. An epidemic ol Jr breaking out, and the peop e paralysed with terror, and , daily to render him any assistance, rowed his boat alone au d nna n( j across the stormy waters or the the island —a distance of four n . attend these poor people m the able and fever-stricken hovels,. - capacity of both nurse and doctci •_ ising that their only chance ol • .j lay in their removal to he, after much persuasion, obta consent to go. He succeede taining a crazy boat, and, witn of the Inspector of the D°<i a ‘ fv phn» ment Board, he brought th patients down to the beach, a them across to the mamlan the very real danger of dro. “ f ing to the unseaworthy condit , y boat, which was only yritU® constant bailing, and winch sa a few minutes of reaching h tion. All the patients arc now Kl]C cufl | b' way to recovery, but Dr Smyt jj, ed to the terrible disease fro • j had saved so many. An PI . f tb* made to the public to ?royi . erS jj wife and children of tins t y medical man-
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New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 28
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252A MEDICAL HERO. New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 28
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