ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 153, 19 June 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A YOUTH'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Thursday. Leslie Ernest Franklin, a youth m', Hi, hanged himself last night in nis grandfather's house. He left a letter stating thai he was tired of life. No other reason can lie assigned.

LYTTELTON FATALITY. ChristcMurdi, Last Night. An inquest vjis held this afternoon touching the death of John Gilroy, engineer of the s.s. ICaitttna, who was run over by a railway truck on Wednesday. A verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable lo anybody. A rider was added that 'he Riiilway Department should he recommended' to station a man at the wha,rf side of the railway crossing to warn pedestrians and others of the dangers of shunting operations. The coroner said he agreed with the rider and would forward it to the General Manager of Raiiwuvs.

Referring to the need of a propedyoquipped up-10-ditto casualty ward at Lyttclton, the I'rcss gives some startling details in regard to the case of Mr. John Gilroy, chief engineer of the Unhn Company's steamer Kiiitunn, who had both' feet cut oil' by railway trucks o'n Monthly and died on Tuesday last. The Press says—''Mr Gilroy was received >n tlie casualty ward shortly after 3.V". p.gi. and was almost in a dying condition from shock when placed on the operating table. One of the medical men n attendance, assisted by n policeman, had to inject saline lluid f„ tide the injuuM man ove,- the shock, a second administered cholroforni, while a third ntrricd. Nt the surgical work of amputating IjOili legs. cie. There was no trained nurse available, but the custodian was kept busy running to and fro with hot water, dressings, ami so forth, and worked as she always does witli the utmost zeal and eoiisieeniiuusnes-i. hut the conditions were most unfavorable for anything approaching » successful operation. . . . Apart from the danger t. the patient from thedeluv, a very slig'it knowledge of what aseptic stirge.'v means and rei|uires is suilieient to to"«! us what risks are run when operationare performed in a building that from \ surgeons point of view is filthy,- y-hc.-i ere is no place to keep even the dress, orgs tree trom contamination, and wheri!!" 1 ' ""' ""■'«l»ainte,l w ilh aseptic '■•'•an ions wbH would naturally ' 1)( . -!>edlnivi:!;^'' uln,i^hi '™ to '-