BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.

AFTER HEART HAD STOPPED.

GO-FEET FALL. A tG-years-old girl, Miss Mona Eileen Watts, of Grenfell Road, Mitch am, Surrey, fell GO feet from a ' fifth-floor window of the offices of Kodak, Ltd., in Kingsway, London, where she was employed. I Dr. Frederick Saxby Willis, a Harley Street physician, who is the medical officer to the firm, was in the building, and hearing a thud on the pavement outside the window dashed j out and saw the limp form of the girl, j lie examined her and found that her breathing had ceased and her heart action had apparently stopped. Dr. Willis began to apply artificial respiration and for ten minutes worked feverishly on the pavement, surrounded by a crowd. i He finally caused the girl to breathe again and to resume the action of her heart. Timely Oxygen. She was then carried into the building and oxygen administered from apparatus carried in an ambulance which had been summoned. The effects of the oxygen were very satisfactory, and the girl was then sent to Charing Cross Hospital. Dr. Willis expressed the opinion that but for the oxygen carried in the ambulance the girl' could not possibly have reached hospital alive.

Heart Attaok Theory.

' A safety rail is fitted to the window from which the girl fell, and the cause ! of her fall is a mystery. I One theory is that she was sitting on the rail when she was seized with a heart attack and overbalanced. An eye witness said she fell without uttering a cry.