WHEN YOU FALL FAR.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7752, 22 July 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHEN YOU FALL FAR.

HOW IT FEELS TO DHOP 200 FEE !' It is quite a mistake to think that wlien a person falls from a great height his heart stops before over his uody touches the ground. Breathing lay no. suspended :lor a. few minutes, hut li nrt'licial respiration :s applied at once, life can be restored in many cases. Til's was proved recently in America, when a girl fell a distance of two hundred feet with no more serious results than same fractured hones and a few internal injuries. She compares her sensations while falling to the faintness one feels when travelling downwards in n jerky lift. It wa.s only in the moment of landing that she lost consciousness. Doctors assert that such accidents would not so often prove fatal if artificial respiration were more generally tried, dust because the ix.tiont's pulse is nnt beating it is a fatal error to think ho must, therefore, be diead. Treat him as you would a. mam rescued from drowning, and in nine cases out of ten you will save his life.