The Sydney Tragedy.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney, September 4. It is now stated that the operation on the abdominal section of Miss Nicholls was performed while the unfortunate girl was in a state of collapse, and was rendered necessary by the unskilful way in which the first illegal operation was made. The operation is said to have been crndely and barbarously performed. A person styling himself an American student assisted at it, and he has fled to Newcastle, where the police have lost trace of him. It is belieyed the body of the child was burnt. .Later. The body of an immature child has been found in the harbor — supposed to be the missing link in the tragedy. In view of the Wooloomooloo tragedy and other recent illegal cases, the necessity is being discussed of amending the Medical Act with the object of stamping out unqualified practitioners. The feeling on the subject is very stroDgt _^________^_
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 58, 5 September 1895, Page 2
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