DOT CAUSES DEATHS
MISPLACED DECIMAL CHEMIST'S FATAL ERROR (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON Tuesday. The story of how the accidental transposition of a decimal point caused the death of three boys, brothers, w r ho w r er.e suffering from ringworm, was revealed at an inquest at Wembley. A doctor at St. John’s skin hospital had prescribed a Continental drug, the doses of which are calculated according to the patient’s weight. A young woman dispenser explained that she had to convert the prescription from metric to apothercaries’ weights. In so doing she mistook the position of a decimal point. The coroner said the result of the error was that the bottle contained a quantity of the drug 10 times too great. The jury returned a verdict of death by poison, accidentally administered.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 9
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