WITH BROKEN NECK
MAN IN PLASTER SHELL.
A miner who broke his neck a fortnight earlier returned to his home at Upton, Yorkshire, from Pontefract Infirmary recently. Patrick Joseph Sword, aged <l7, was taken into the infirmary with injuries received in a roof fall. A r ? ~n neck was diagnosed, but in view of his head injuries nothing could be done till these had healed.
For several days he was kept perfectly still in bed, and particular care was taken to see that his neck was not moved at all. When his head wounds had healed he was encased in a plaster-of-paris shell which enveloped his head, neck, and body down to the waist, leaving only a small hole for his eyes, nose and mouth.
He must remain in it for the next six months, but will be free to walk about so long as he has a companion. He will return to tho infirmary monthly for supervision. This is the third case of its kind to be handled by the staff of the infirmary in recent years, complete recoveries being effected in the other two cases.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 12
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187WITH BROKEN NECK Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 12
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