MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1928, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

AVAR. ON NURSES. CHICAGO. December 30. Margaret Barrie, a Canadian nurse employed at the Chicago Municipal Hospital, resigned after refusing to obey the edict of the Mayor ‘‘Big Bill” Thompson) that all Canadian or English nurses must take the oath of allegiance to the United States under penalty of losing their positions. More than twenty other nurses, who are graduates from Canadian hospitals are faced with the same dilemma They are making a united protest to the newpapors against “Big Bill's” highlm i> Vdiiess. SIAMESE TWINS. OPERATION FAILS. LONDON. December 30.

Interest has been aroused in England in the case of Siaese twins, who survived for 12 days. They were complete entities, although joined together by the tops of their heads. At the inquest on the twins the coroner remarked that here wore apparen]y only 14 similar cases on record. The twins wore named Elsie and Marie Dodgson. They were horn on December 10, and died on December 22. The immediate cause ol death was an operation, for which the twins had been brought to Derbyshire to Guy’s Hospital in a specally titled compartment.

The doctor, in evidence, said that for the mother to. feed one it was neees sarv to hold the other’s feet in the air. It was also necessary for three nurses to support the twins when lying on their sides, as it was impossible to allow them to lie indefinitely oil their hacks, owing to the risk of hyperstatic pneumonia. Doctor Bromley, who operated, told the coroner that separate blood supply organs made the operation possible, although it was realised that it would probably he fatal. Marie who was smaller and much wasted, gave Elsie -t reasonable chance of survival. Deatli however was due to the alteration of the pressure on Elsie’s brain. The father said that the mother of the twins had had a fall down stairs. The coroner gave a verdict of death hv misadventure.

PEKINESE OESTED. CHOW IS MILADY’S FAVOURITE. LONDON, Dee. 30. In the best limousines the place of the Pekinese beside milady lias been usurped by the chow, declares America’s ‘‘Dog King” (L. R. Zifferer), who is now in London. “Why the chow has taken the place of the frail little Pekinese is difficult to say.” he confessed, “hut I think the dignified and ‘lie-dog’ appearance of the chow bad something to do with it.” Mr Zifferer has a palatial dog mansion costing £.50.000. and his monthly pay-roll for the services of six veterinary surgeons totals £3OO