BUNDABERG TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1928, Page 1

BUNDABERG TRAGEDY

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY iAustralian & N.Z. Cable Association.) BRISBANE, Feb. 15. Before the Serum Commission, T)r Christenson, analyst to the Queensland .Commissioners of Health, gave evidence that in his opinion the danger be a matter of common knowledge to attending the bulk Use of serum should any trained doctor, ('veil without a printed note of warning, anil he was hi a meab le il he kept the serum longer than the time generally accepted as a safe margin. Dr Christenson declared that il the serum in the fatal bottle was examined. it would he found that the balance had been upset, making the serum a poison. He submitted a statement showing that the content of the toxin and anti-toxin serum was prepared in the most correct proportions, between two acting agents, and how if this was upset, the serum became a poison. This could lie possible by drawing the serum through a rubber tube, thereby causing an expulsion of air and encouraging production and the multiplying of diphtheria bacteria and tinselling tbe equilibrium of tho serum. The Chairman of the Commission staled that the Commission was making extensive experiments whereby it was hoped not only to throw light on the deaths, but to ensure that the like of it would never occur, again in this or any other country.