Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-04
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SHE was twenty-three and had always
wanted to be weighed on one OF those
penny -in-the slot machines, but had been
told repeatedly that no lady ever did
such thing in public. Still the longing
did not leave her; in fact mammals
proposition only made her desire grow.
The other afternoon she found herself
in the Naugatnck station. No one
but two newsboys happeped to be near,
| while before her stood the tempting
scales. Now, If ever, was her chance,
/ SO she stepped on. The boys turned out
of curiosity to see how heavy she was.
A little embarrassed at finding herself
observed, but full of satisfaction, she
stepped down from the scales just as
a third boy broke through the door to
join the others. "How much does she
weigh" he cried in a voice loud enough
to disturb the nap of "CY" Thompson,
out in the baggage room, and the two
newsboys answered just as the reporter
and three other horrid men came in,
''112; purity good for little thing like
that" The blushing girl stood not upon
the order of her going. I'D
THE successful operation of intuba-
ton performed on the 10 months old
child of John Grady of Fuller street by
Doctors Hayes and Munger is attracting
much attention. Intubation is per-
formed for the relief of dyspnoea or
laryngral stenosis, which in plain words
is rapid, labored breathing, leading to
strangulation. 1t was first attempted in
Paris by Bouchut, in 1853, and was first
tried in this country by DIR Joseph
ODwyer of New York in 1880 and is
| consequently of very recent discovery.
The operation is delicate and difficult
one and this instance was extremely
dangerous on account of the age of the
patient. DR. Hayes was called to attend
the child at o'clock on the evening of
February % and saw at once its danger
GUS condition, necessitating the opera
ton in question to preserve life. He
called DR. Carl Munger in consultation
and both physicians set to work at
once, and by 8 o'clock the child was
breathing artificially through a metallic
tube. The case was one Of genuine
membranous Group, which in almost
1 every case, results fatally. The medical
books say it is one of the most fatal of
has, however, entirely recovered, the
tube having remained in the larynx
eighty-six hours. The operation is per-
formed without the use Of the knife or
ether, and is wholly bloodless, the tube
being placed in the larynx through the
mouth by the use of instruments de-
vised for that purpose. The operation,
to be successful, however, must be per-
formed early in the sickness. Doctors
Hayes and Munger naturally feel proud
of their work, not so much for its being
the first operation of the kind in Water
bury, as at the great success obtained
the child being now perfectly well.
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IT is said that the action of the road
board in cutting down the big expense
attached to the city barn is only the
shadow of a coming event. 1t costs
about twenty dollars a day to run the
barn, and no one seems to know what
the city has been getting in return fol
the expenditure this winter. The streets
and cutters were never in worse
shape than now, and many of the city's
sidewalks are in a VIGOROUSLY bad con
dition. The writer does not pretend tt
know who is responsible for this state Of
affairs, but that it exists every Taxpayer
knows and the board of road commits
sioners are being watched by the public
leye just now.
AND, by the way. l am Informed
that the cost to the city of the stone
crushed at Cheshire notch last summer
was $3.50 ton, just twenty-five cents
more than outside parties agreed tt
furnish stone for. 1t is also said that ar
Iagent of the city has disposed of some
of the stone to private parties fol
twenty-five cents a ton less than the
things for the road board to carefully
consider. The experience of last season
should be turned to good advantages.