DIED IN AMBULANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 16

DIED IN AMBULANCE.

MAN WITH PAINFUL FOOT.

WORKING UNTIL THE LAST.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WESTPORT, Friday.

George* Graham, a labourer, employed by the Public Works Department at Whangapeka, died in an ambulance yesterday while being taken from Karainea to hospital in Westport. Last Saturday Graham and an overseer left work and came to the Little Wanganul Hotel, where they stayed the week-end. Graham complained of having a sore foot, but he said- no more about it. He is supposed to have gone to the kitchen in order to get some hot water for his foot. Although he said nothing about it, it is thought he scalded himself. On Monday morning he was limping, but said he was all right. Later he showed his foot to someone, and it appeared to be badly inflamed. He returned to work at Whangapeka and worked until midday yesterday. The overseer noticed that he was looking very ill and spoke to Graham, who said his foot was very sore. The overseer examined it and at once summoned a doctor, who ordered Graham's removal to the Westport Hospital in an ambulance. The ambulance had gone only a short distance when Graham died.