AN ISLAND PATIENT
MEDICAL ADVICE BY RADIO By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, May 13. A wireless call for medical advice and possibly medical assistance was received from Fanning Island by the liner Aorangi which arrived from Vancouver to-day. When the vessel was near the equator en route from Auckland to Vancouver a message was received stating that a woman on the island was about to give birth to a child, and owing to the doctor on the island having died two days previously no other person on the island was skilled in midwifery. The message was reported to Dr E. O’Neill, the Aorangi’s doctor, and Dr P. S. Foster, of Christchurch, who was a passenger on board. After the two doctors had consulted together the advice required was wirelessed from the Aorangi to the island. Later on in the voyage further wireless advice was received that the birth had been a success, and that,, the mother and child were doing well.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 14
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160AN ISLAND PATIENT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 14
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