ITALIAN FIRE TRAGEDY.
HOSPITAL BURNT OUT. Bt Telegraph—Prepa Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 19, 7.30 p.m.) ROME. Mar 19. The hospital of Banto Spirito was on* of tho most famous and largest chanties in the world. It had been in the course of erection sine© the time of Innocent 111 (1198 to 1216). The library and museum were most valuable. The fire was due to a short circuit starting the fire in the laundry, the ancient wooden floor and ceiling of which were quickly ablaze. There was a panic amongst the eight hundred patients. When the floor of the room occupied by chronic patients fell in, dense smoke filled the corridors. The doctors and nurses did their best hut were able to do little in the darkness. Most of the victim* were between fifty and seventy years of age. The rest of the patients were earned lrtfo the courtyards and lay on improvised beds until the fire was extinguished.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16738, 20 May 1922, Page 18
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