A GHASTLY INCIDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A GHASTLY INCIDENT.

Like is (says the Melbourne Punch) full of tragedy, and every now and again some episode— horrible or grotesque—is brought under our notice that for the time startles us out of our case-hardened worldly indifference. It is good at times to contemplate incidents, for thoucrh the details may be horrifying the moral sometimes is patent —it makes us think. A young man was brought in with typhoid and after a short time lie died, and a post mortem was held on the body. As is sometimes the case, the hospital nurses were called iu, and the doctor proceeded to give a short clinical lecture on various organs affected by the disease. The body was laid out in a half-lighted room, and the flesh of the chest thrown back over the head to show the heart, lungs, &c, thus half covering the face. The lecturer was proceeding with his tlieme, when he noticed that one nurse was standing in the background and uuable to see. " You had better come round this side,"hesaid. Obedient to the summons, she passed round the head of the body, but when in .1 position to see the face of the duad man she uttered one piercing scream and fell senseless to the ground. When half-an-

hour later, she was with difficulty brought to, the examination ensued. She was not in the typhoid ward, and had not known or heard of the man's having heon brought in, she had not even known he was ill. She was to have married him within a week, Can anything more ghastly than this be imagined ?