TREATED PER WIRELESS.
PASSENGER’S LTFE SAFEGUARDED. By Telcsrajih—Press Association. NELSON. March 31. During the Araftura’s passage from Nelson to Wellington on Alonday evening, a lady passenger was stricken with a sudden, serious illness. There being no doctor on hoard, the wireless operator, Air Dacca, described Lite symptoms to a doctor in Wellington, who gave instructions as to treatment, which, with the assistance of a lady passenger and a chemist, who hapjponed to he on hoard, were svstcmatieallv iollowed. " Further, when the vessel arrived at Wellington, the medical man who had been called again when the vessel was coming in the Heads, was on the wharf awaiting the arrival of the patient, who was then taken to a private hospital. It is felt that had it not been for wireless and the precautions taken, death would probably have occurred.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 1 April 1926, Page 7
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138TREATED PER WIRELESS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 1 April 1926, Page 7
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