EMERGENCY CALL
GAS SAVES WOMAN’S LIFE (P.A.) ' AUCKLAND, Aug. 10. To save a woman’s life, Auckland’s gas supply was turned on for three minutes during the gas economy restriction period yesterday. An urgent appeal from a large private hospital for gas to be made available for three minutes to perform a blood test on a woman patient who had been admitted in a dying condition was made by telephone to the Auckland Gas Company, which immediately turned on the supply to allow the experiment to be made.
The test was successful, and the patient rallied under subsequent treatment. The hospital bacteriologist said the test was designed to estimate the nitrogen content of the patient’s blood, and electricity was useless. Only an intense gas flame produced sufficient heat to bring about the necessary digestion of the protein in the blood by acids.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26228, 12 August 1946, Page 6
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141EMERGENCY CALL Otago Daily Times, Issue 26228, 12 August 1946, Page 6
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