Six patients died and 13 others wore poisoned—of whom some contracted gangrene —after the mistaken use of one substance instead of another as a local anaesthetic before operations performed in the County Hospital at Wiborg (Finland). A young probationer nurse had been put in charge of the dispensing owing to lack of funds for engaging trained dispensers for the Finnish hospitals.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1939, Page 7
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