REMARKABLE RECOVERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 497, 21 October 1909, Page 4

REMARKABLE RECOVERY.

A FATHER’S PRESENCE OF MIND. A twelve-year-old boy, Fred. Crockett who owes the preservation of his life to the breath which his father blew into his lungs, was nursed back to health (states the Daily Mail) in the cottage hospital at Potter’s Bar, Middlesex. The lad is the son of Mr George Crockett, an agricultural labourer at Potter’s Bar- One Sunday evening the boy, with some companions, was swinging on the end of a cart of hay standing unhorsed by the side of the rick. Suddenly the cart overturned, completely burying the boy under the hay. The children gave the alarm, and the boy’s mother, not knowing it was her own son to whom the accident happened, hurried her husband and a neighbour named Walker to the rescue. A quarter of an hour elapsedjf however, before the boy was dragged from the hay, to all appearances dead. The father, with remarkable presence of mind, adopted a method of revival which he had used on animals in extremis, “I drew his little mouth into mine,” he explained, and blew with all my strength, getting my wind into the boy’s lungs.” Walker, the neighbour, took turns when the father’s breath was exhausted.

After ten minutes they noticed a twiching of the muscles of the child’s face and the heart was felt to beat. For two days the boy remained unconscious at the cottage hospital, but on the third day he was reported to be making good progress.