The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-06-19 00:00:00

THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY.

Or. Abrath says that on arriving on the scene of the
calamity, about an hour otter its occurrence, he found
a child named Ada Smith, whose parent* resided at
Northumberland-street, lying in Dr. PAC'. surgery.
A sister was amongst the dead. As speedily se possible
he bad the child removed to the Hospital for Foreign
Seamen, rind by means of electricity succeeds I in sus-
taining the heart. This, we bear, is the only case in
which electricity wee coiled into requisition. Oe
Suiiday morning Miss Smith was is a fair way of
rec iserv. Dr. Abrath hOs another little patient, Alice
Jane Kegans, who I suffering fr on C01101114i.,0 of the
brain; she also is recovering. He states thst where
death resul:cd from pressure the early application of
electricity might have been very valuable.

DR. LAYBEftrs arsrExEsr.
li.. cui I 1.e4 • ter dye .13 riotti-ii•y evening o
was celled by • &lira Jacks in t att.. I, • boy, .lio sh•
-aid was in • tit I went iminviiately to the Victoria
Hall, ant ny gong by the bang el:Aisne. found • 'p.
about 111 De Fenno( age, Iririg on the Bret landing. He au
q lite dead and presented the nee oolitic* or death by
soft cetioo—the eyelids being doe A. the Pupils widely
dilate& sod thee implexion linil. Q it, unable to under-
stall the eatlee of 'I by. dealt, no I knewing !bat there
hal been an 00000 t•inuient iut the hell. SI ray own little
bey bad teasel me to g i, I went to where I thought the
coildren moult be 1-eying cod there, at the p.c. whs.,
ex t from the dr., , olotaine I, I-a • • 'eine which
ISIASSrII oil ilestriptioo-, CD tea iif chit ire.% meet of whom
iirere lea I pied ene up in &loth t the k-ight of
or eight feet. I saws- o Ice the en MS of th stiff 'cotton
of the Child. Tr 14.1.10( tn the iscuid stair-heed w•• alio it
eighteen inchm open, apparently being only sufficientl•
open to allow on, chill at atme to Dein If the door bad
been properly flied hick against the wall, or if it had b
constructed s, &I to Niro outward., the accident woold
have bea •Icu at 'MP N•lble. I remember Up...gloom dee
yesre ago, when Mr. IleTTI•00 wee holdings Government
inquiry relative to the desire of the 0 ,rporation to
numbs-it the Viet ma Hell fora Town H.ll, Kr R. Sinter,
who oppoied the scheme, seriously complained of tbe
in as of exit at the halL Well, I found I could sive most
Ism by setting to work wicro all my strength and energy
to extricite the living from the dead. Kr. Bernstein,
a medical stodent. and • few other pets°nl were
prewmt, nut they wore tottlly iftsdriqutte to cope with
the work of rem Icing. I edit to kr. Beriwein, 'F
G ere s so and ,et •MI more 'tort ire, for I saw it
-ea • matter of lOD or 200 lives being lost I win hoof
ex•rieating chibtren for some ten rnleatee before I
eke 'reed goy int, similarly enema& end then Mr. Wet ii-
-8011, surgeon. Joined roe, en 1 tig ther we •It to work.
Teen cuno D. B•atti, end Dr. 8010 I, and tier, ng
entirely exhiurtei I, I tell town, b r.-r sere I. i)th• a
afierwarck art red, and 1 mult meotion the sirvic is of
one Loan, • bricklayer wit. Meers. Jobn Thom:nal and
S .oe. By the tint, tee', were lent men on the
scene to form an ergemieed mode of ex 'tic Sim and rani •
log off The boll>, of the children es they were got nut
were h united to • line of person.. sal convey-d enemies
These, returning, tame down • different alto to the
•tairi I, too.e geiog up. There i• no donht toat the
in. final geoilemen preeent. by I•vint sails th-iie prop -r
tuoctioos, saved mealy 1-eell that would ntherwiee hive
been lost. By the lick of Cu 'tan: d iring thi first five
wholes over a hundred children loot their lives The
steftch of the atcoomnere Mee something horrible. F..
the first ten in outer I did not see a policeman or a hell
ofli nal, though I belie.. the hall-keeper was busy at the
other aide of the dog.. The landing where the dews-et
mined was wee stout 12 feet square. In time we git
body removed from the leading, Bet ,re we g n
lights to examine the door •everri, men united their
luso:lath t try and force it oack, hut they were uo•oceess.
fol. We found the rouse of obstructien to be • bolt fixed
in • socket in the ft ,or, keeping the door from conning
about 18 inches. D. Bolton and I examinel NAT
to see it we c cold discover • sock of If. in soy of float In two or three cases there were signs of We, and we tried
every means to resuscitate theta, but with ,ut swell. It
teak about so usioutni to rem se the children, and I am
pretty sure that had ettiot discipline not been kept •
second calamity would have occurred through the pereots
looking Liter their children blocking the way. Those who
seemed likely to recover I directed to be snit to my
ry, where Mrs I, imbort attended to them, sdminis-
tering stimulants, and she did all eh- c 'old for 'hem, acid
in a little tune most of them were eetemeerly recovered
to
be carried home or to the Infirmary. 8 ion, tied got their
some broken in siltle-sibi through the doorway, hut the
mint of those wive will be suffering from broken ribe sod
rupture of the internal orgao•
Up to thig time 1811 name. have hese returned to the
pollee as being ; the number met st ll be Minoan'
to 2C3. The inqueit will open to-day. The iniured
Icing it the Hoipital for Sick IJhildren ire mu, mat. heti, Fog. eight years, 10, G'ialand•rtreet, doing well;
another mernler of the Fox family is at the Infirmary,
and two are dead at hoses; Mary Howe, ten years, 21,
Goiomagostreet, • good deal contused but doing Welt.