CORONER AND DOCTOR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 892, 11 August 1910, Page 4

CORONER AND DOCTOR.

INTERESTING'PnTNT TRENCHED ON. A .question as to the best methods of assisting people accidentally injured on the' street was raised by the City Coroner, Mr. W. R.. Hase'.den, while presiding over an inquest yesterday.V "Do you think it a good' thing,'.' ~he asked Dr. Simpson, "that an injured person should be picked up'at-once, bundled into a cab. 'and-ear-ned: off'to the hospital"?' , The doctor agreed that-it was best that'the victim of an accident should be seen by a medical man before being removed. To a further question by tho Coroner as. to whether it might not be advisable, on occasion, to' allow an injured person to' lie undisturbed for. an hour or two, Dr. Simp? son replied that it depended on the case. Mr. Baselden .mentioned the'case of imen wounded ok tho field of battle. It' had been suggested that the large percentage of recoveries, was. dueto the fact that the injured'/ were .'usually' left to lie ■'for a time, unconscious'perhaps, but free from any interference that would tend to retard their ch'an:es: of''recovery. Dr. Simpson remarked that shock,'in cases-of accident, might pass off with time, or 'might become.worse. In the majority of eases, it was best that the. injured should be removed to hospital straight away, after receiving medical attention.