OPERATION AT SEA
BANKER'S LIFE SAVED CRITICAL" CONDITION (Elec. Tol. Copyright —United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, May 28. Friends of Mr. George F. Baker, the noted banker, said his life had been saved when his yacht, \ iking, hailed the liuer Niagara and the liner's physician performed nn operation for peritonitis. The patient's condition was reported as satisfactory. ' A turn for the worse later occurred, and a coastguard cutter at Honolulu was ordered to rush medical supplies to the Viking, which afterwards also asked for donors of blood, indicating that transfusions were necessary, but the cutter had already left. , A ' naval aeroplane was therefore ordered to carry serum to the \ iking, to be used instead.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 2
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