AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 51

AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT

SISTER JEEPERY INJURED,

Word was received yesterday that Sister M. Jeffery—all New Zealand nurses are sisters in. Egyp v who went to Egypt by the Maheno, a immediately stationed at Port Said, i. .th a painful accident on September 4. It seems that she was sitting in the dark, on some steps of the nurses’ home, when a shutter suddenly swung’ ana hit her in the face, damaging the eye so much that it had to be removed. Tha operation was performed by Captain Marchant, an eye specialist, and a nephew of Dr Truby King, Major Wylie, a well-known North Island surgeon, and Major Ackland, of Christchurch. Sister Jeffery made a quick recovery, sitting outside two days after, and in a few days was out driving. In her letters she says she cannot speak too highly of the attention given her by the doctors and the nursing staff. Among those who were extremely kind to her was Major Waite, D.S.O tjen a convalescent at Port Said. Nurse Jeffery was invalided Home, and is probably on her way there now. The doctors say there is no reason whatever why she should not go almost immediately on active ecrvico again.