A sensation was caused at Hie Melbourne Homoeopathic Hospital on October 11, by an explosion in the sterilising room, which is alongside some of the Women's wards. Nurse l'itl.y was sterilising somo dishes and instruments, and slio placed a (iisil containing alcohol near a small sterilising boiler. The flame from a gas jet caught the dish, and an explosion occurred. Both j\urse -Pitt.v's arms were enveloped ljv (lames, and they were badly burned, l'ho women patients heard the explosion, and became greatly alarmed, lull I hoy were soon paciilod by tho doctors ana nurse*- 1
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1575, 19 October 1912, Page 12
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95Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1575, 19 October 1912, Page 12
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