LUCKY LITTLE BOX
HOW A LIFE WAS SAVED. Eighteen years ago a coastguard on the Isle of Wight picked up a small box washed ashore from a torpedoed hospital ship. ' He took it to a chemist. Eighteen years ago Dr. Robertson, now chairman of the island s Public Health Committee, had in his charge ,at a Ventnor convalescent home a wounded soldier who had developed tetanus; Anti-toxin ' treatment ' was then barely proved and no serum was available. When Dr. Robertson mentioned the man’s plight to ' a chemist he fetched the box the coastguard had brought him. It contained a phial of anti-tetanus serum. And the'man’s life was saved. Ever since then, said Dr. Robertson lately, referring to a statement at a Guildford inquest that no anti-tetanus serum was available in the Isle of Wight, the island had never been without the serum. “The phial,” added the doctor, “which continued the serum so providentially supplied was sent to the Imperial War Museum.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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