CASUALTIES

Otago Witness, Issue 3467, 24 August 1920, Page 13

CASUALTIES

While attempting to board a "moving tramcar .in Auckland on the 16th instant, a young man named Ernest Goodhew had his foot badly crushed. The car was iust slowing up, but in his hurry Goodhew missed his noM, and tin; wheels passed .over one of his feet." He was sent to the hospital, where the foot, which was practioally cut off through the accident, was amputated. The patient is now doing satisfactorily. Aitnur Wilshi.ro, a boilermaker, aged 53 years, fell 50ft do\.n the hold of a'steamer while us.ng an electric drill, and was removed to the Auckland Hospital with a fractured skull.

A man named Walter Watson Falconer, aged 22 years, was to unci uutu iu . , dock at Owaka on Wednesday. The causa of death is supposed to be heart disease. Thomas Lester, aged 67 years, who had been living at the Crown Hotel levthree weeks, died suddenly on the 19th while sitting at the tore m uio room. Heart disease is surmised to be the cause.

A drowning fatality occurred at 1.30 a.m. on the 21st, when Carl Zista, mate of the steamer Ruawai, was drowned while the vessel was berthing at the Helensville wharf. The body was recovered at noon. The deceased was well known and highly respected. He had been in the service of the Kaipara Steamship Company for some years. A two-year-old boy named Smith, whose parents were victims of the influenza epidemic, living with his aunt at_ Geraldine, swallowed some caustic soda which his aunt was U9ing. Medical attendance was obtained and the child brought to the hospital, but he died in the evening from shock and a burned throat. Abraham Fletcher, an elderly man, sat in a chair in the Auckland Savings Bank, evidently to fill in a bank slip, and expired almost instantly. Death was due to henrt affection.

Charles William Rodgers, a labourer, living at 25 Richardson street, died suddenly on Sunday while his wife was attending a church service. He has been suffering from asthma for a number of years, and had had medical attention. He leaves a large family of small children.

Arthur J. Fulton, 24 years of age, residing at Tahakopa, was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday evening. He had sustained a fracture of the left ankle through a tree falling upon him. John Archibald, 40 years of acre, a coal miner, residing at Lovell's Flat, was brought in to the Hospital late on Saturday evening sufferlnc; from severe injuries to his back and left leg, caused by a fall of coal in the Dunlop mine.