CRUSHED IN PRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 11

CRUSHED IN PRESS

INJUREJ) .MAN’S ORDEAL MELBOURNE, Sept. S. Alexander Watt, whose leg was crushed between the rollers ot a priming press to-day, bore his agony with stoical fortitude for three hours, while mechanics dismantled the press to liberate him. Doctors who were summoned gave him injections to relieve his pain, but later in the afternoon, Watt’s leg was amputated in. hospital. "Watt, was feeding paper into an offset press at the works of McLaren and Company Proprietary, Limited, i’itzroy, when his leg was caught between tlio rollers. The power was immediately shut off and two doctors were called. A gang of 30 mechanics took tile press to pieces and lifted the rollers with n block and tackle to free Watt. This task took more than throe hours. Waft was conscious nearly all the time and talked to the mechanics. He w.as taken to hospital and admitted suffering from severe shock ami a compound fracture of the left leg. that only such stocks of poison gas should be held as were accessary for experiments in defence against chemical warfare. Mir Henry Brackonbury, vice-presi-dent: of the B.M.A. 'Council, who is a member of the advisory committee to the -Ministry of Health, declared that to ask that poison gas should not be manufactured for any purpose would be demanding something which was futile. The resolution was defeated and an amendment was carried:— “That, this meeting condemns unreservedly the use of poison gas in warfare as inhuman in its results and degrading- to civilisation, and relies upon the council to do everything in its power with it view to securing the co-operation of the medical profession in all countries to prohibit the use ot poison gas.”