FATAL BLUNDER
RY HOSPITAL DISPENSER
dinted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyngutj.
LONDON, April 8
Mow accidental transposition of a decimal point caused the death of three hoys, ulm were brothers, and "ere sulfering from ringworms was re\ealed at a Wembley Coroner’s inipiiry.
A doctor at the Saint John’s Skin Hospital prescribed a Continental drug known as Thulium Acetate, liio doses oi wo icli "cic laiclikili d ac. Hiding to the patient’s, "eight.- The young woman dispenser explained ai the inquest that she had to convert tho prescription from the metric to
tin- apolhn’. uric's weig-it in tin course of which she mistook the p si
lion of a decimal point. The Coroner pointed out that tinresult was that, the bottle contained a quantity of the drug ten times to., great.
The jury returned a verdict <■ death-, by poison, act ideiitaHy ad
ministered
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1929, Page 1
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