Nurses Chase Patient in Pyjamas

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 350, 3 February 1937, Page 8

Nurses Chase Patient in Pyjamas

‘CWLD NOT SLEEP FOB NOISE OF TRAFFIC’ Jumping from a balconyjind scalling high railings, a man patient, clad only in pyjamas, escaped from Swansea Hospital (England) recently. Two nursese saw him leave and chased him through the rain-swept streets of the city. But despite the fact that only 48 hours before he had. undergone a serious operation, the patient, Ivor Thomas, of Bathhurst street, managed to reach the house of his fiancee, Mrs Elsie Chriswick, a widow, of Rodney street. As soon as the door was opened in answer to his knocks he jan inside shouting “Hide me! Hide me!” Within two minutes he was in bed. A doctor who was brought to the house found that none of the opera* 5 stitches had been damaged in the escapade. 'T could not sleep at the hospital because of the noise of the traffic out side,” he said.