OPERATION AT SEA
STEWARD ON THE MONOWAI (Per United Press association i AUCKLAND, June 11. An operation for acute appendicitis was performed at sea aboard the intercolonial steamer Monowai when the vessel was one day out from Sydney on her way to Auckland. The patient was an assistant steward, J. Gillies, single, aged 26, belonging to Dunedin. The ship’s surgeon, Dr K. J. Boyd, performed the operation. The chief officer, Mr T. W. White, administered the annssthetic, and Mr L. K. Nunn acted as orderly. A room in the surgeon’s suite was used as a theatre. The weather being calm it was not found necessary to stop the ship. _ The operation showed that complications had developed, including peritonitis. When tpe Monowai berthed this afternoon the patient was removed to the Auckland Hospital. His condition was then believed to be serious, but reports later in the evening were more favourable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22286, 12 June 1934, Page 10
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