STRANGE AFFAIR AT THE HULL INFIRMARY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2523, 6 February 1877, Page 3

STRANGE AFFAIR AT THE HULL INFIRMARY.

A most extraordinary affair is reported to'have happened a few days- ago at the Hull Infirmary. A- man who had been admitted as/^an in-patient' at the Institutfoii died" "suddenly^ or rather, .was thought "to hare died, after having been ipeechle'ss,for f ,three'days. The bqdy'wus in due courfle[r ( emoved-to,the dead .house, wbire three other bodies,, were . lying, ,«nd : a jury ,was -Summoned to hold an inquest.; In,the -.course- of the day, it being early.-in lihe' morning that he:was taken ibr dead) nis. coffin was prepared iindi -oilier; > made '.<'r for the interment of the body.'" 'About nine o'clock in the' tvemng, one of the female''rfurse's^in company with two assistants,'had' 1 occasion to remove another body to the dead-house: She entered the room'"firßi"ih~b*deTHt(f light"the gas," arid as she was doing_Bo she noticed something white rawed ?ab6v«*one of the tables, and on turning, round[ gave a loud shriek and rushed out of "the place, exclaiming, "JXherc's'.one of those dead, men rsittjmg up." The fright ,she received may better be imagined than described. It is said thaj; one of ihejurymen who had beenfqm* moned for the inquest had arrived, and hear j ing.the shriek'made this way to^h^deadf houpe, and, BemgTmet by the nurae,rjfas told' what .had occurred; He immediately went in the^todin? and 'sure enough" the man was ptofcnrtAed byhim to-be alive. , The.nurap^hgijjin for the doctor... On finding said, V Doctor/you*re wanted down in the dead-house; one of the detfd:men~ is sitting up !'' He thereupon went to the house, and was not long before he was convinced of the fact that the man was not'dead.' The bandages were cut off, stimulants were administered, and he was removed back to one of the wards. He remained speechless for a day, but he has since become better, and ther,e is,every probability of his ultimate recovery. . He must think himself -very fortunate in so narrowly escaping a most horrible death ; for, in all probability, the body would have been put into the coffin and screwed down that evening. Steps will be taken in future to prevent another "mistake;" being made, and it has been decided that all bodies in future shall be left in the dead-hotise a certain time after life has been pronounced extinct, and to undergo a 6nal examination afterwards, j —Ban bury