Amazing Cures in Hospital

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 4

Amazing Cures in Hospital

Death Defied and Conquered Remarkable cures, illustrating: the progress of medical science, are reported at St. Helens, England. In the St. Helens Hospital recently a middleaged man named Broddington, of Travis Street. Widnes, was recovering from an accident from which he was expected to die within 24 hours. Broddington, a labourer at the Sutton Silk Factory, St. Helens, fell from a wall on to a concrete floor. During his fall he struck two metal spikes, one of which pierced his skull to the brain, while the other entered his abdomen. He was admitted to the St. Helens Hospital, where ‘.lie recovered so far under treatment that he could talk and occasionally smoke. He is fully expected to recover, says the latest report on the case to hand. Lawrence McCreech, of Widnes, was discharged from the same hospital after recovering from terrible injuries sustained at a St. Helens colliery, when he was buried by a fall of roof. Both arms had to be amputated, one at the elbow and the other at the shoulder. McCreech also sustained other severe injuries, and was not at first expected to recover. Under treatment he was able to return to his home at Widnes, where he was fitted with artificial hands and arms. Thomas Bellfield, a Sutton miner, is also back at work to-day after a cure at the same hospital. Bellfield was taking shelter in the safety district at the Lea Green colliery while shots were being fired in the mine. By a mischance a stone from the explosion was blown round the corner where Bellfield was standing, smashing his ribs and piercing his lungs. Bellfield was admitted to hospital suffering from fractured ribs and lung haemorrhage, and was not expected to live many hours.