To Satisfy a Man’s Last Wish
Unlike many of those icho minister to the sick, members of the St. John Ambulance Association are not necessarily finished, icith a patient when it is found that there is definitely no hope of his recovery. An inmate of an Auckland institution, who had only a few days to live, was wistfully asking whether he could be taken home to die. The St. John Association, disregarding medical advice, put the man in an ambulance and took him to his home 250 miles away. To everyone’s surprise they got him there alive and he teas able to spend his last few hours soothed by the presence of his "ain folk."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 17
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115To Satisfy a Man’s Last Wish Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 17
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